We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain … the fact that cities where manufacturing was initially more important experienced larger negative labor demand shocks. But … manufacturing jobs. Overall, 34% of former manufacturing hubs-defined as cities with an initial manufacturing employment share in …

concentration. A ‘military bias’ in Europe and Japan increased the global competition for military orders but also enhances the …

mobility within Europe. …

likely. The paper then deals with Europe's, and particularly the EU's, role in this dynamism. The EU was one of the early … "Connecting Europe and Asia: Building Blocks for an EU Strategy" in this context and finds it to be lacking in various ways. The …

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe's structural problems and governance as the cause of … relationship between the single currency and economic stability in Europe. We confirm the asymmetries that remained after the … introduction of the euro and then discuss the governance overhaul taking place in Europe today. This overhaul was something that …