competencies in the EU - and presents some implications of NIE for economic policy making, research and advisory activities. …

The paper starts with a description of major reforms of EU policy in the network industries. Based on the normative …

and explore why absolute and relative measures frequently evolve in opposite directions. The paper shows for the EU-15 and …

and regions in the EU-15 since 1980. Localization, which nests concentration and specialization, is measured by a Theil … index. The stylized facts reveal a broad aggregate trend towards structural convergence in the EU-15. The by far most …

regulatory competencies in the EU -- and presents some implications of NIE for economic policy making, research and advisory …