In this chapter our aim is to examine the effects on cohesion of European Union competition and conlpetitiveness policies. More specifically, attention will be paid to three sets of measures: the rules of competition policy (Articles 85-94 of the EU Treaty); industrial competitiveness policies...

The present paper reports an attempt to evaluate the relative effects of regional policy on investment in Greek manufacturing industry during 1971-82. A generalized neoclassical model of investment behaviour is used allowing for separate estimates of the effects of different policy instruments....

The paper is an attempt to examine the idiosyncratic unfolding of Greek industrialisation and de-industrialisation from a long-run perspective (1867-1994). Following stylized facts, it is shown that the main shifts in the Greek economy occurred outside industry (from agriculture to services)....

This study follows the socio-economic aspects of the Greek entrepreneurial network in southern Russia in 1870-1917 using largely new material from Russian archives. The multi-dimensional character of Greek merchants (often being industrialists and landowners) and the close links established...

The aim of the paper is to explain the role that technical efficiency and foreign spillover effects have on firm survival. Panel data from Greek manufacturing industry (3142 firms) in 1997-2003 are used. Technical efficiency is estimated through a CES translog production function. A hazard...

The present paper reports an attempt to estimate the role of urbanisation economies in Greek industry. Using a flexible form of production function obtained from a Taylor-series expansion of a polynomial it is estimated that the labour productivity of the manufacturing sector is five per cent...

Im Hinblick auf die Sicherung des europäischen Binnenmarktes ist die Vermeidung von Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch staatliche Beihilfen von großer Bedeutung. Der Verfasser untersucht und beurteilt die Politik der Kommission in diesem Bereich anhand allokationstheoretischer und...

Im Hinblick auf die Sicherung des europäischen Binnenmarktes ist die Vermeidung von Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch staatliche Beihilfen von großer Bedeutung. Der Verfasser untersucht und beurteilt die Politik der Kommission in diesem Bereich anhand allokationstheoretischer und...

A new world order is taking shape as a result of the relative decline of the United States (US) and other Western economies. An important aspect of relative decline is a progressive secular slowing down of productivity growth. Another is the way US development has been shaped and to some extent...

The rise of China was closely associated with the strategic opportunity offered by a wave of globalization dating from the 1970s. As China grew, western growth was not restored. Soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the arrival of the unipolar moment, the world confronted a succession...