Nowadays Russian government pays a lot of attention to solutions of the high energy intensive production system in the country. The key factors of low efficiency of regional energy saving programs is the lack of approved standards and algorithms in the area of energy audit. In practice, both...

Unilateral climate policy by the EU can be detrimental for global climate protection. Our purpose is to provide an economic analysis of this policy, to quantify the risk of carbon leakage, and to investigate economic effects related to the potential anti-leakage policy measures. We analyze...

One of grand challenges which are faced by Russia today is to deregulate its gas market while favouring longer-term growth of economy. Since the 1990s, several proposals for structural reforms of Russian gas industry have been intensively debated, including the split-up of Gazprom. From the...

Tourism sector is playing an important role in the development of a region, contributing to the economy growth and job creation. Despite of the actual crisis, Tourism activities continues to growth in the last year (UNWTO 2011). Also, Spain maintains in the better positions of the world ranking....

The main aim of the paper is to investigate the co-localization patterns of three-digits manufacturing in Italy in 2010. Thus, exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) will be conducted using discrete and continuous models in order to capture more efficiently the phenomenon. The location...

The regional imbalance is one of the major hindrances for sustainability of economic growth of Indian economy. The persistence of imbalanced regional growth poses a serious threat to the economic growth and development, and creates economic, social and political tension among the states in...

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the spatial co-localization in Vietnam of two-digits manufacture industries in 2010. Thus, an exploratory cross-sectional analysis will be conducted using discrete-space models in order to unfold the idiosyncratic patterns of agglomeration, concentration...

The existing literature on cluster embeddedness largely neglects the impact of finance on the development of firm?s network linkages. This is striking in so far that particularly venture capital is often referred to as ?smart money? providing firms not only with funds but also with network...