This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …

fragmentation and the spatial size of cities in a sample of 180 metropolitan areas in the contexts of the US and Europe in the … administrative fragmentation impacts positively on land uptake in both the United States and Europe, although to different extents …

We study whether cities with Jewish communities grew faster than cities without Jewish communities in Europe between …

fragmentation and the spatial size of cities in a sample of 180 metropolitan areas in the contexts of the US and Europe in the … administrative fragmentation impacts positively on land uptake in both the United States and Europe, although to different extents. …

. Research in Europe, however, shows that people tend to be immobile. Even mobility within countries is restricted compared to … also reveal the extent to which national borders still impede spatial adjustment in Europe. This has important implications …

barriers to economic adjustment. People in Europe are sticky so it is unreasonable to assume spatial disparities will disappear …. Our findings also imply that cities in Europe form national rather than a single continental system …

Europe - and more generally where populations are relatively immobile - are likely to persist and indicate real differences …