The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and integration into the world economy within less than two decades. Nevertheless, gaps in terms of income per capita relative to the euro area remain large. This suggests that the...

Global financial integration has been associated with divergent patterns of real convergence and the current account in emerging markets. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account...

The evolution of city growth is usually studied for relatively short time periods. The rise and decline of cities is, however, typically a process that takes many decades or even centuries. In this paper we study the evolution of Italian cities over the period 1300-1861. The first contribution...

Die Qualität historischer Stadträume hat seit jeher eine besondere Faszination auf Stadtplaner*innen und Architekt*innen ausgeübt. Mit der Kritik an der modernen Stadt nach 1960 erfuhr die Betrachtung der alten Städte einen neuen Aufschwung. In Kombination unter anderem mit den...

Since the 1980s, the promotion of heritage values has gradually become a relevant issue for urban planning. Together with the emergence of new peripheries, inner-city areas and particularly old historic centres, affected by deterioration due to the recession of the last decades, have been the...

Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Fortschritte der Transformation hin zu sozialen Marktwirtschaften aus Sicht der Unternehmen, indem wir aufzeigen inwiefern es den betrachteten Ländern gelungen ist, ein nachhaltig stabiles Wirtschaftsumfeld zu generieren. Als besonders bedeutsam in diesem...

The health sector is defined as the priority sector in the Albanian Strategy for the social and economic development. The Albanian Health sector is in the continuing transformation in the function of the realization of the proper standards. To realize the reform in this sector and to help the...

The paper uses up-to-date household data from two Northern-Albanian regions. It summarises socio-economic facts on taking up remunerative non-farm employment and identifies the determinants of non-farm income diversification at the farm household level based on a binary logistic regression....