The book offers practical and theoretical insights in regional externalities. Regional externalities are a specific subset of externalities that can be defined as externalities where space plays a dominant role. This class of externalities can be divided into three categories: (1) externalities...

Family reconstitution data: a cliometric view -- History of cliometrics -- Growth theories -- Cliometric approaches to war -- GDP and convergence in modern times -- Cliometrics and the great depression -- Financial Systems -- Cliometric approaches to international trade -- Time series -- The...

Einführung -- Flexibilität Als Zentrale Herausforderung Für Ein Dispensationsmanagement -- Auf Dem Weg Zu Einer Flexiblen Humanressourcen-Architektur -- Instrumente Zum Management Einer Auf Flexibilität Ausgerichteten Humanressourcen-Dispensation -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Pensionomics puts forward a portfolio perspective on the combination of funded and unfunded pension arrangements. In a second-best type argument it is formally shown that a Pay-As-You-Go pension system can substitute the tradability of human capital. While this ideal form of diversification can...

A crucial issue in the era of globalisation and internationalization, is whether the relationship between investment and finance is beneficial to growth and development. Received wisdom is that Research and Development is essential not only for maintaining productivity, but also for competing in...

Preface -- 1 Employment Location Models: An Overview -- Part I: Macro-Scale Approaches -- 2 Employment and Labour in Urban Markets: The IRPUD Model -- 3 Modelling the Economic Impacts of Transport Changes Experiences and Issues.- 4 A Population-Employment Interaction Model as Labour Module in...