Perthes' "Wirtschaftsatlas Neue Bundesländer" dokumentiert in mehr als 200 Karten, Graphiken und Tabellen den Prozeß der Entstehung marktwirtschaftlicher Strukturen in den Neuen Bundesländern. Aufgrund der Fülle und Aktualität des verarbeiteten Datenmaterials (Redaktionsschluß des Werkes:...

This chapter discusses factors that contributed to different economic dynamics across European regions and the prevailing disparities. The impact of EU Cohesion Policy in reducing disparities is studied based on the empirical evidence on the effects of EU regional policy. With more than thirty...

We analyze the impacts of three major unexpected border regime changes that occurred during the course of 20th century on population growth along the Austrian-Czech border. Using historical municipal-level census data reaching back to 1880, we find no effects of the dissolution of the...