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The EU funding contribution to regional growth and regeneration in Romania : a focus on the North-East Region : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29...

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Goschin, Zizi; Ileanu, Bogdan - 2014 - Draft

Romania's communist regime used forced industrialization and urbanization policies as a solution for speeding-up the pace of development in the lagging areas, which resulted in reducing regional disparities. However, after 1989 there areas were the first that suffered the hardships of economic...

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Profiles of local growth and industrial change : facts and an explanation

Dauth, Wolfgang; Südekum, Jens - 2012

In this paper we take a detailed look at the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in German regions over the period 1978-2008. In the aggregate, the German economy is characterized by a secular decline of the manufacturing sector and a rise of the modern service economy. This trend of structural...

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Implications of the latest enlargement on regional disparities and cohesion policy : a spotlight on the EU funds absorption : The 50th Congress of European Regional Science Associa...

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Drăgan, Gabriela; … - 2010

policy and is supported by the EU funds via allocations for convergence - competitiveness and employment - European … States (NMS) of the EU are a major beneficiary of these allocations, especially with regard to the convergence objective … the main issue is when and with which rate a process of regional convergence will occur, both inside each country and …

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A spatial analysis of tourism activity in Romania : 55th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 25-29, 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; Reveiu, Adriana Elena - 2015

Location is a key concept in tourism sector analysis, given the dependence of this activity on the natural, built, cultural and social characteristics of a certain territory. Consequently, the tourist zoning is an important instrument for delimiting tourist areas in accordance with multiple...

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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Südekum, Jens - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

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Bucharest Metropolitan Area and its external hinterland : spread or backwash effects? : 54th Congress of European Regional Science Association, August 26-29, 2014, Sankt Petersburg...

Grosu, Raluca Mariana; Constantin, Daniela-Luminita; … - 2014 - Draft

Even if it has not a legal status yet, the Bucharest Metropolitan Area (BMA) project is in an advanced preparation phase, already producing effects in the real economy. Conventionally, BMA imbeds the entire Ilfov county (which surrounds it and form together the Bucharest-Ilfov region (NUTS 2))...

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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012

The unprecedented economic rise of Eastern Europe and China in the last two decades has triggered concerns in developed Western market economies about adverse effects for domestic labor markets trough increased import competition. Simultaneously, exports from developed countries to these new...

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The size distribution across all "cities" : a unifying approach

Giesen, Kristian; Südekum, Jens - 2012

In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether 'cities' are administratively defined Census places as in Eeckhout (2004) or economically defined area clusters as in Rozenfeld...

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Trends in restructuring NMS regional economies as responses to transformation, crisis and EU membership : a spotlight on Suceava county in Romania : 54th Congress of European Regio...

Ileanu, Bogdan; Goschin, Zizi; Constantin, Daniela-Luminita - 2014 - Draft

The current research has concentrated on the following questions: What are the trends in restructuring Suceava's economy and which regional development factors were the most important (exogenous, endogenous, structural, socio-political ones, etc.)? Which is the relationship between social...

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