Herstellung und Betrieb von Windenergieanlagen - on- und offshore - haben sich zu einem bedeutenden Wirtschaftszweig in Nordwestdeutschland entwickelt, der absehbar die Arbeitsplatzrückgänge im Schiffbau kompensieren kann. Damit treten sowohl die Unternehmen als auch die Beschäftigten als...

Seit Beginn der Transformation haben in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas (MOEL) die interregionalen Disparitäten zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten auf und diskutiert auf der Basis theoretischer...

A lo largo de 2001, la Comision Europea dara a conocer su propuesta legislativa para reforma de la Politica Pesquera Comun. Este trabajo tiene el proposito de analizar la politica estructural de la pesca y realizar una valoracion de los efectos de dicha politica sobre la sobredimension de la...

The structure of a country’s external liabilities, as well as the extent and nature of its international financial integration are key determinants of its vulnerability to financial crises. This is confirmed by new empirical analysis covering OECD and emerging economies over the past four...

This paper brings together the results from new empirical analysis on how – under international capital mobility – financial account structure and structural policies can contribute to financial stability. More specifically, the analysis has identified features of financial accounts and...

This paper reveals the contents of the category of «regional industry-specific shift» by which, unlike existing treatments, a qualitative change in the sectoral structure of the region, leading to increase or decrease of its production specialization is meant. A methodical approach is proposed...

The present paper first describes the European Union’s structural policy framework for the 2000-2006 period, setting out the objectives and instruments and highlighting the funding granted by the European Council in 1999. In this context, the second part of the paper aims to describe the...

The paper describes the problems of structural changes and structural policy within the framework of the relation between economic growth and structural changes, with attention given to the explanation of the principal growth and restructuring functions and their agents in the transition...

The economic development of the European Union in the last few years was the main subject for debating inside European forum. Different positions and conclusions were the results of the analyses-still a major conclusion is the fact that the newcomers in the space of European Union (Poland,...

Macroeconomic imbalances can lead to economic crises. This is especially true in a monetary union due to the restrictions it imposes on the tools available to economic policymakers. The years leading up to the outbreak of the global economic crisis were characterized by divergent macroeconomic...