This paper examines the influence of Mongolia's landlocked location between Russia and China on the country's international trade patterns through the use of an augmented gravity model. The results are basically consistent with the prediction of the gravity model with some unexpected results on...

Although a variety of modifications of classical central place theory has been proposed, one area that remains unexplored is the effect of relaxing the nearest centre assumption for the purchase of a specified basket of goods within a given hierarchical level. This article examines the effect of...

French University System has changed a lot during the past decade. On one hand, numerous studies are made at different scales to understand how it is spread in French urban system. On the other hand, fewer are research works about how students migrate from one University City to an other. This...

Scientific geography is one of the great traditions of contemporary geography. The scientific approach in geography, as elsewhere, invovles the precise definition of variables and theoretical relationships that can be shown to be logically consistent. the theories are judged on the clarity of...

The EU-funded program INTERREG was designed to avoid the national boundaries to be an obstacle nor to the balanced territorial development nor to the integration of the European territory. Besides, its aim was an integrated action for the economic development and economic and social cohesion....

Regional economic integration through logistics, information network and connectivity improvement can increase the 'virtual size' of an economy as trade with neighboring countries increases. This leads to substantial benefits from scale, network, coordination and agglomeration economies. As is...

In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra-regional integration under the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) initiative and through participating in the East Asian production networks. In the 1970-80’s, South...

In this article it is investigated the subject of real convergence of Central and Eastern European countries on the basis of some theories and models used in the analysis of this process, also the effects of recent crisis upon convergence, the latest results of real convergence and the...

How does isolation affect the economic activity of cities? Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in determining the income...