The main aim of this paper is to analyze the consequences in foreign trade, transportation and the credit system of a nation because of the strengthening of the economic organism, through the economic and political reformation. The paper refers to the case of the Romanian Economy for the period...

Quality of life is increasingly becoming a concept researched empirically and theoretically in the field of economics. In urban economics in particular, this increasing interest stems mainly from the fact that quality of life affects urban competitiveness and urban growth - research shows that...

Bien que la région soit un concept multiforme, voire omniforme, le découpage régional est le cadre privilégié de la pensée spatiale et de l’action territoriale. Or la moitié des être humains du monde, et plus des trois quarts des européens, habitent dans une ville. Les villes...

European economies are undergoing dramatic changes, determined by the rise in knowledge-intensity of economic activities, as an effect of the escalating pace of technological change, on one hand, and by the increasing globalization of economic affairs, driven by markets liberalization, on the...

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...

One of the stylised facts in Urban Economics is Zipf’s law, according to which city size distribution in many countries can be approximated by a Pareto distribution, whose exponent is equal to one. In this paper we point out the three main issues in any empirical work on city size distribution...

Australia shapes a unique urban system. This paper examines the Australian urban system using data for urban centers and localities in 1996 and 2001. A summary and a basic descriptive analysis of the database are provided, followed by an examination of whether the system follows Zipf’s and...

Brazil is one of the countries with the most serious regional economic disparities in the world. Nevertheless, it is known that the simple existence of regional disparities does not imply that there is a regional problem in the country. The paper stresses this difference through a simple set...

We study and evaluate the role of geographical, economic and social determinants of telecommunication services in European Union. We use a logistic model with spatial covariates to estimate the demand function for telecommunications in the Union. Our results show that different types of...

This paper uses un-truncated city population data from six countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, France, England and Japan) to illustrate how parametric growth regressions can lead to biased results when testing for Gibrat’s law in city size distributions. The OLS results show...