, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …

This paper studies the experiences with fiscal adjustments in the EuropeanUnion (EU) countries during the transition …

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 … terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. In prior research it has been well established that (EU) regions differ in …

10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …

structural model parameters for the NUTS II EU regions. These estimations enable us to come up with an empirically grounded free …-ness of trade parameter. In line with NEG theory, the estimation results show that a spatial wage structure exists for the EU … EU. Agglomeration forces appear to be rather localized. At the same time, confronting our empirical results with the …