Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East...

Bevölkerungsstand und -wachstum, Geburten und Sterbefälle, Zu- und Abwanderungen sind wichtige Indikatoren für die Beurteilung der demographischen Entwicklung von Städten und Gemeinden. Diese verlieren jedoch ihre Aussagefähigkeit, wenn z. B. infolge einer Gemeindegebietsreform...

For long time, the applicability of economic theories of cities, urbanisation and urban development as well to Russian cities was hampered by the lack of data beyond population figures. Since 1990, some contributions of Richard Rowland with regard to urban development in Russia referred to...

Public sector activities are often neglected in the economic approaches used to analyze the driving forces behind urban growth. The institutional status of a regional capital is a crucial aspect of public sector activities. This paper reports on a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East...