consistent with the decoupling hypothesis. By contrast, however, the current financial crisis has had a significant effect on …

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region’s resilience … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in … their resilience to shocks but it typically remains unclear as to why regions differ in this respect. For the 2008- 2012 …