Reducing disparities among regions within European countries is the aim of European and national structural policies. In particular, a European grant contributes to the German governmental program for equalizing regional unemployment. The goal is to bring it down to the national average by...

Intro to operators, probabilities, and linear model -- Lp-approximable sequences of vectors -- Convergence of linear and quadratic forms -- Regressions with slowly varying regressors -- Spatial models -- Convergence almost everywhere -- Nonlinear models -- Tools for vector autoregressions