This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ?new economic geography? model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is ?bubbleshaped?, i.e. it...

Closing the prosperity gap between regions has always been a key political aspiration of the European Union - and cohesion policy is the primary means to achieve that goal. Europe is currently undergoing a digital and green transition that is drastically changing the way its economy works. How...

The goal of this project was twofold. The first objective was to find out to what extent publicly available beneficiary data (from managing authorities and commercial databases) could be used for quantitative, econometric counterfactual analysis. This led to a second objective: in the countries...

Der dynamische Ausbau der Bioenergieproduktion verursacht zunehmend regionale Flächennutzungskonflikte. Dieser Beitrag stellt Ansätze zur raumplanerischen Steuerbarkeit der Energiepflanzenproduktion auf landwirtschaftlichen Nutzflächen in Niedersachsen vor.