The aim of this article is to explain the difference between regionalism and regional development concepts that are often used interchangeably, to investigate the fundamental aspects of two phenomena: regionalism in the sense of “new regionalism” and in the sense of “regional...

Introduction: If the challenge facing automobile producers in the 1980s was how to change theirindustrial model, that of the 1990s has been how to reorganize internationally. Ofcourse, internationalization has been one of the industry's characteristics since itsinception, and international trade...

The literature on international business cycles has employed dynamic factor models to disentangle global from group-specific and national factors in countries' macroeconomic aggregates. Therefore, the countries have simply been classified ex ante as belonging to the same region or the same level...