In this paper we would like to draw attention on the fact how important for the absorption of the EU funds might be each country's or region's split of its financial portfolio between EU, national and private sources of co-financing. Based on data from the Ex-Post Evaluation 1994-99, this paper...

Based on the review of literature and our own conceptual considerations, we show that absorption problems regarding the EU Structural Funds may be important. The central topic of our paper is the question of how to measure the administrative capacities of particular Candidate Countries for...

This paper presents OpenStreetMap and closely related software as a resource for spatial economic research. The paper demonstrates how information can be extracted from OpenStreetMap, how it can be used as a geographical interface in web-based communication, and illustrates the value of the...