territories. The Post-Fordist economy in Europe has led to agglomerations of economic activity and urban growth while other … city planners have to deal with both the regulation of urban growth and the planning and management of urban decline … linked to socio-spatial and economic growth. Using theories on uneven urban development and the case studies of Bitterfeld …

spatial structure and growth---which are usually understood within the context of urban evolution. One notable exception is … economic growth in metropolitan areas in Spain, where this type of analysis is virtually non-existent. However, it is a …

Many cross-country studies acknowledge the indispensable role of institutions in promoting economic growth and in … aims to discuss the roles and functions of institutions in regional economic growth and development. To that end, first … the impact of institutions on regional growth and development outcomes from both the theoretical and empirical studies …

homogeneous and heterogeneous panel data estimators to a Spatial Panel Error Correction Model (SpECM) for regional output growth … equation, the empirical results support the hypothesis of export- and FDI-led growth. We also show that for export and outward …

and sanitation. Building on previous evidence on urban concentration and economic growth, in this paper we analyse … urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … urban concentration (something that previous studies on urban concentration and economic growth have not considered …