It goes without saying that maintaining connections with remote, secluded areas constitutes a valid reason for public authorities’ involvement. Such intervention is necessary due to fact, that small local communities would usually be unable to generate enough demand to commercially justify...

This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in 1995 to 2000 and, moreover, relaxes the assumption of a single steady-state growth path which appears to be out of tune with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial...

Seit Beginn der Transformation haben in den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas die interregionalen Disparitäten zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten auf und diskutiert auf der Basis theoretischer...