Border regions and border effects currently attract a lot of attention in political practice and economic research. Substantial interest in regions located along the frontiers of integrating countries is predominantly inspired by the presumption that their specific geographic position might...

Population ageing and decline are inescapable facts for Germany which are expected to have - especially due to the labour force decrease - negative impacts on the economy. In this context it is often referred to the possibility of countering potentially negative economic effects of population...

Dieses Papier untersucht die regionalpolitischen Implikationen der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie. Erstens werden der allgemeine Modellrahmen der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie und eine für die Politikanalyse geeignete Modellvariante erläutert. Zweitens wird untersucht, ob regionale...