Die Anforderungen an die inländische Infrastruktur werden in Zukunft trotz der gegenwärtigen globalen Wirtschaftskrise eher weiter zunehmen, Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Effizienz der Infrastrukturnutzung durch eine nutzerabhängige Verkehrsfinanzierung stehen damit nicht in Widerspruch zu...

Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will continue to be concentrated in core cities of large agglomerations even in the Internet age...

In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between 1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we neither find compelling evidence for a specialisation...