7th INFER Annual Conference 2005: Regional Economics - New challenges for theory, empirics and policy

- Efficiency of and challenges for regional policy at supranational, national and sub-national level (investment mix, equity versus efficiency, macroeconomic impact assessments) - Regional growth differentials: growth centres versus dispersion - Regional convergence and catching-up, new EU-Member States - Clusters and regional development - Economic geography, urban economics, agglomerations - Spatial economics and econometrics - Factor mobility and labour markets - The role of public economics (institutions, public finances, fiscal design etc.) in the process of integration