Hat die schleswig-holsteinische Exportwirtschaft dem schärferen Wettbewerbsdruck im Zuge von Globalisierung und Erweiterung der Europäischen Union standhalten können? Die Exportbilanz Schleswig-Holsteins fällt ambivalent aus. Während die Exporte Deutschlands insgesamt ähnlich stark...

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia remained. In view of this development, history seems...

Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will continue to be concentrated in core cities of large agglomerations even in the Internet age...