Migration and Regional Convergence in the European Union European migration trends in the last decade have been marked by a number of spectacular changes. In the course of the recent enlargement immigration to some EU15 countries from the CEECs has become remarkable. Nevertheless, the vast...

This paper investigates the growth factors of EU regions in the 1990s. We test the hypothesis that regional growth is determined by endogenous growth factors, trade and technological catching-up in a growth accounting framework. Our estimations suggests that growth of EU regions is positively...

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So far there is no direct estimator available for dynamic panels with strong spatial dependencies. We propose a two-step procedure, which involves first spatial filtering of the...

Since 1975, the extent of catching-up has been very different between Southern regions. Starting from the proposals of growth theory, the paper wishes to show whether growth differences can be attributed to different endowment in human capital, differences in private or public investment level,...

The notion of the ?New Urban Economics? emerged in the late 1960s as more rigorous approaches were applied to what had largely hitherto been an essentially descriptive approach to analyzing urban economies. The application of mathematical methods to urban problems offered the prospect of both a...

The changing pattern of urban logistics with the growth in supply chain management and the increased adoption of e-commerce has implications for the location of warehousing and trucking facilities. Intuitively, as the supply chain becomes more sophisticated then more localized depots and...