Die Corona-Krise hat alle Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union getroffen - allerdings einige früher und härter als andere. Nun soll ein immens großer Rettungsschirm aufgespannt werden, über dessen Finanzierung, Konditionen und mögliche Auflagen die EU-Mitglieder noch streiten. Auch die...

In the European Union, unemployment rates differ markedly across regions, both within and across nations. This study presents a coherent theoretical approach to explain the emergence and persistence of such regional unemployment disparities. The analysis builds on the wage curve literature, and...

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

Standard models of the new trade and location theories usually assume full employment and are thus ill-equipped to study spatial unemployment differences, which in reality are more pronounced that income disparities Regional labour market theories like the ´wage curve´-approach on the other...