Integration with the EU or other areas like the Danube region is likely to benefit the CENTROPE regions in a differentiated way. This report will analyse the extent of spatial integration, the future potential for it, as well as strengths, weaknesses and likely points of conflicts in the...

Based on a three equations model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This allows to analyze counterfactual scenarios that assess the impact of changes in exogenous variables on the...