Urban systems, and regions more generally, are the epicenters of many of today's social issues. Yet they are also the … them resilient to different types of shocks. We take regions to be systems composed of internal networks of interdependent … a region's internal connectedness relative to other regions. Using industry employment, we calculate the economic …

Structures” (GRW) on labour productivity growth of 225 German labour market regions for the period 1994 to 2006. The empirical … spatial spillover effect for productivity growth among neighbouring regions. If we additionally include further spatial lags … Spatial Durbin Error model indicate that there is a negative spillover effect from the GRW policy on neighbouring regions …

parts of their hinterland. Therefore, it is often claimed to use city regions as objects of comparison or for the sake of … urban planning. Commonly, the delineation of functional regions is based on commuting flows from the municipalities in the … direction are not considered. The method presented here delineates city regions on the base of bidirectional commuting flows …

German Constitution is still sufficiently guaranteed or whether economically weak regions are in danger of being left behind …. However, empirical studies have shown regional convergence for important indicators such as gross domestic product and … unemployment in recent years, so that strong and weak regions at least do not drift apart. Nevertheless, in the areas of demography …

Living conditions differ between Germany’s regions. However, while the supply of public goods is more or less equal … across the regions, differences in economic features are far more pronounced (e.g., in productivity and unemployment rates … differences between regions are mostly the result of differing locational conditions (such as infrastructure, population density …