"A casual look at regional unemployment rates reveals that there are vast differences which cannot be explained by different institutional settings. Our paper attempts to trace these differences in the regions' labour market performance back to the regions' specialisation in products that are...

"A casual look at regional unemployment rates reveals that there are vast differences which cannot be explained by different institutional settings. Our paper attempts to trace these differences in the regions' labour market performance back to the regions' specialisation in products that are...

The most important question of regional economics is: What are the reasons for the existence, the growth, and the changes of regional economic structures? Without any doubt, agglomerations which are not based on natural sources belong to the most significant regional structures. The New Economic...

Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, die oft verwendeten linearen Nachfragefunktionen nutzentheoretisch zu fundieren. Die Herleitung einer Nutzenfunktion mit diesen Eigenschaften erbringt ein überraschendes Ergebnis: Nicht nur eine Nutzenfunktion, sondern eine Klasse von Nutzenfunktionen hat die...