Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

Several interesting results on the economics of industrial districts are collected in this book. The first part investigates over internal determinants of industrial district competitiveness looking at internal productivity, at patterns of innovation and at those factors which create a favorable...

Part 1: Financial development and performance of the real sector. Chapter 1: Female Members in Corporate Board of Directors and Financial Performance -- Chapter 2: The Different Impact of Financial Constraints on Firm-level Exports in Manufacturing and Service Sector: Evidence From Croatia --...

Introduction -- Limitations of Voluntary Restraints -- Follies of Voluntary Restraints: Politics and Economics -- CD Players: Laster Light at the End of the Tunnel -- Meeting the Challenge: Blind Alley of New Protection -- Trade Rules and Struggle for Margin -- Market Structure and Dumping --...

The economies of the European countries are still in recession, the development process is at a standstill, companies are facing financial difficulties, and the EU’s monetary policy is tight and focused on lowering inflation. The fiscal problems and high debt levels of the northern European...

Part I: Developing the Transport Corridor Rotterdam-Genoa within Spaces of National and European Importance -- Part II: Regional Accessibility: An Important Locational Factor -- Part III: Logistic Processes - Organizing Efficient Freight Transport in the Corridor Rotterdam-Genoa -- Part IV:...

Within the broad frame of regional research in an international perspective, the contributions of this volume present new theoretical, methodological and empirical results as well as political strategies for the following topics: - ecomomic integration in the Baltic rim, - innovations and...

This volume presents the main findings of the research programme Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe, backed by the German Research Council. In doing so it examines the relationship between technological change and regional development by means of empirical surveys. In six...