Hanse History and Economics : a New Institutional Economics Perspective on Hanseatic Trade -- Culture, Trust and Reputation : the Network Structure of Hanseatic Trade and its Benefits -- "Small World" Reconstruction and Meaning of the Hansards' Social Networks -- Bridging Distances and Filling...

Large shocks, such as natural disasters, are often found to have little or no effect on the equilibrium distribution of economic activity across space. Two apparently competing theoretical explanations for this phenomenon are the increasing returns theory and the locational fundamentals theory....

The North and Baltic Sea Grid is one of the largest pan-European infrastructure projects raising high hopes regarding the potential of harnessing large amounts of renewable electricity, but also concerns about the implementation in largely nationally dominated regulatory regimes. The paper...