This book explores economic developments across Europe in relation to its apparent segmentation, as disparities widen between core and periphery countries. In contrast to previous literature, the scope of analysis is extended to Europe as a continent rather than confining it solely to the...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Bedeutung exogener Unternehmensgründungen für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Ländlicher Räume untersucht. Dabei wird zunächst die räumliche Verteilung exogener Gründungsaktivitäten und ihr Beitrag zum regionalen Gründungsgeschehen im Bundesgebiet ermittelt....