The European Unions?s task of providing Trans-European Networks (TENs) in transportation, communications and energy transmission which has been enacted by the treaty of Maastricht, is not confined to internal networks in the EU. Since 1994 this task has been widened so as to give support to the...

This paper discusses how to fine-tune spatial computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to allow an accurate assessment of indirect effects of major infrastructure projects, through the example of the new Dutch CGE model RAEM. The use of spatial equilibrium models for assessing the economic...

Many rural communities in the USA are economically depressed due to declining employment opportunities. Some of the causes include increased agricultural mechanization and consolidation, declining manufacturing jobs, inability to attract high tech jobs, and declining mineral prices. Whatever the...

In this paper we focus on urban growth dynamics of Eastern European cities and regions in the past and in the new Europe. This work is a part of on-going research in the field of urban and regional development, carried out in Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. Eastern...

The present paper was motivated by the recent interest put on the regional context as having a major role tracing economic agents behaviours and inducing productive activity. Three main goals have been defined: to emphasise the relation between favourable regional factors for development and...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate local artists’ changes of attitudes and activities concerning community vitalization, on the basis of a concept that the changes have been induced through communication with other local artists and residents. A nationwide questionnaire survey was...

The European price landscape is characterised by significant price differences among regions and countries for quasi-identical goods. Possible explanations include transport costs, tariffs and non-tariff barriers, market structure, etc? While the introduction of the single European currency...

Road pricing policies are, after a cooling down period of a couple of years, again prominently back on the political agenda in the Netherlands. But also in the period of less political interest, research in the field of (road) pricing policies continued in other countries as well as in the...

Large-scale investments in transport infrastructure have been traditionally evaluated assuming the equivalence between direct and indirect economic effects (Jara-Diaz,1986), which is only correct under -generally non-guaranteed- perfect competition assumptions. Despite this common practice there...