Th e paper deals with issues of public support of tourism. Besides the theoretical aspects of the public aid, attention is paid to evaluation of spatial eff ectiveness of public funds allocation. It is assumed that the most effi cient use of resources is appropriate to concentrate the support in...

This paper focuses on three (marginal?) questions surrounding the analysis of economic convergence and uses Spanish provinces as a means of illustration. The three questions in hand are as follows. Given that the geographical units of analysis are usually quite different in economic size, is the...

Proposes an empirical analysis of regional convergence in Canada based on the growth model of Barro et al. In an open economy with perfect capital mobility, if domestic residents cannot borrow abroad with human capital as collateral, the dynamics of human capital accumulation is the driving...

UK regional data on GDP and the GDP deflator are analysed to extract information on underlying demand and supply shocks as well as aggregate demand and supply shocks. Identification is achieved using long run restrictions, based on a theoretical model. The main results are that the supply shocks...

This paper contrasts the different regional effects of an homogeneous monetary policy, and studies the local characteristics that underlie these differential responses. To this purpose, we use Spanish regional data and estimate a vector autoregression (VAR) model using seemingly unrelated...

Purpose – This paper seeks to assess the importance of time-varying regional patterns to countries' per capita growth rates, and their effect on the conclusions that can be drawn from growth regressions. Design/methodology/approach – Pooled ordinary least squares on a data set of five-year...

Th is article deals with cross-border cooperation: its development in Europe and more specifi cally in the Czech Republic, about its intensity, forms and about structures supporting cross-boder cooperation. It describes creation of euroregions in Europe and consequently also in the Czech...

The article focuses on involvement of regions and municipalities in international relations, for which the term paradiplomacy has been coined. A multi-disciplinal approach is used. The phenomenon is viewed from the perspectives of the International Relations, Political Science, European Studies...

In the introduction this essay presents a basic concept of creative economy. This concept is based on the growth theory and there is added the sociable-urban aspect. The birth of the information and communication technologies (ICT) together with the development of internet transformed completely...