obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth … long-run growth effect for countries taking part in the outsourcing process of producer services exists. The growth effect …

tendencies will be empirically investigated in this study. Locational gini coefficients are computed taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 … enhancement of theoretical models. Further, the results are important for understanding agglomeration processes in the EU …

relationship, at the sectoral level in a group of EU countries. Our main objective is to test at the sectoral level the conclusions …

domestic and foreign openness on each economy. Using disaggregated data for EU manufacturing over the period 1989-1999 we find …

determinants of the growth of intra-EU trade from 1960 to 2000. The results suggest that income growth was the major force … estimation results for intra-EU trade, using a variety of extensions, underline the robustness of the Baier-Bergstrand cross …

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 … relation between market access and economic activity empirically. We simulate the impact of enlargement on EU Objective 1 … regions proximate to the new accession countries than in "interior" EU regions. We also find that a future Balkans enlargement …

domestic and foreign openness on each economy. Using disaggregated data for EU manufacturing over the period 1989-1999 we find …

-skilled workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real …This paper presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of low … structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 3.3% in the real …