Abstract The current paper deals with the labour market effects of European Monetary Union (EMU). We compare the EU-memberstates’ susceptibility to asymmetric shocks and their labour market flexibility under status quo conditions. The findings are related to the question which countries are -...

<sc>Krieger-Boden C.</sc> and <sc>Soltwedel R.</sc> Identifying European economic integration and globalization: a review of concepts and measures, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Processes of regional economic integration such as the European integration process have been shaping the economic relations between countries...

<title>Abstract</title>We qualitatively match new economic geography (NEG) to stylized facts on German economic integration after 1989. We find that NEG may explain German integration reasonably well. Germany may currently be close to the peak of the bell curve, which describes the long-run relationship...