the determinants of current account imbalances of EU Member States. As the results show, price competitiveness is …

tendencies will be empirically investigated in this study. Locational gini coefficients are computed taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 … water transport and financial intermediation record a significant increase in agglomeration. Agglomeration tendencies of … enhancement of theoretical models. Further, the results are important for understanding agglomeration processes in the EU …

, New Trade Theories and the New Economic Geography. Taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 European countries covering 20 industries … Industrial Concentration but only a slight increase in Countries' Specialization in the EU evident over time. Especially, low … Economic Geography can explain both Industrial Concentration and Countries' Specialization in the EU best. As regards Countries …

In the light of the current economic debt crisis within the Euro zone, the heterogeneity of EU members has becoming … economic integration with the other EU members. Despite the common use of the term "European integration", neither a uniform … integration are hard to quantify, thereby making it almost impossible to argue objectively whether an individual EU member state …

the EU membership, while no substantial effect comes from the euro adoption. Finally, we investigate the effects from … financial integration on country groups within the EU. -- Financial integration ; economic growth ; productivity ; European …

-zelnen EU-Mitgliedsländern unterschiedlich stark ist. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird daher ein Integrationsindex vorgestellt, der … den Integrationsgrad der einzelnen Mitgliedstaaten mit den übrigen EU-Partnern bestimmt und auch seine Veränderungen im … den Sub-indizes zeigt sich, dass die Rangordnung der EU-Staaten hinsichtlich ihrer Integrationstiefe zwischen den …