This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate variability on the economic specialization of European countries. Two theoretical approaches are used: the first one, advanced by Krugman (1991), underlines that the monetary integration is favouring the specialization of countries members of an...

This article develops a specific theoretical analysis of labour and firms location in relation to territorial competitiveness. The location process is thus analyzed under three angles: with respect to labour mobility in an economic geography approach; through the firms location choices in an...

This paper traces the origins of the different monetary regimes adopted in Bulgaria and Romania in 1996-97 and examines their performance during the EU accession. The findings indicate that the constraints of the currency board in Bulgaria shifted economic activity towards the private sector,...