This chapter discusses the concept of multiple objective decision analysis in regional economics. Until the end of the 1960s, decision analysis was still dominated by simple optimization methods, such as single objective programming, cost-benefit analysis, and fixed target approaches. As a...

This chapter reviews a concise survey and a set of reflections concerning current regional and multiregional economic models. The notation current refers to the situation around the mid-1980s. A number of reviews of multiregional economic models undertaken in the first half of the 1980s forms...

An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the regional level, but the impacts at firm level are less...