focuses on how the design and current state of SWIFT was influenced by its historical origins. In order to ensure widespread … SWIFT’s design. Over time, what began as a closed “society” founded to reduce errors and increase efficiency in inter …

and physical-geography spillover eects help explain the observed distribution dynamics across European regions …

This review of recent contributions reveals common conclusions about the effects of integration on location. For high … cluster together, turning location into a self-reinforcing process. However, agglomeration raises the price of immobile local …

This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three main aims. (i … available at the national level. (ii) To present descriptive evidence on the location of aggregate activity and particular … industries and to consider how these location patterns are changing over time. (iii) To consider the nature of the agglomeration …

geographical distribution of related research. We investigate whether the siting of the Diamond Light Source, a 3rd generation … potentially endogenous location choice of the synchrotron, we exploit the availability of a `runner-up' site near Manchester. We … use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

such a “weightless economy”, what factors matter for the location of economic activity and thus for economic development …