This paper calculates structural balances for EU-countries and relates them to fiscal sustainability. Although the Stability Pact implicitly accepts the need to distinguish between the structural and the cyclical component of net deficits, the issue of long-term sustainability is only covered by...

In this paper, common patterns of transition are tried to find in population. We look for chains in order to group Spanish provinces into clusters. Besides, income changes are analysed by the same procedure. Finally, we combine both studies to compare them Population and income data since 1960...

This paper focuses on current patterns of restructuring in Russian Karelia's timber industry, which constitutes the backbone of the regional economy. In particular, the paper investigates the relationship between an increased export orientation of this industry and a notable worsening of its...

In many traditional approaches the notion of “society” has been taken for given as a territorial container of modern society per se, and regional development was only a question of how to organise and distribute within societies. However, increasingly globalisation, flows and networks across...

This paper is on work in progress. The China Model exists and runs fast and usually reliably although it still has very simple behavioural modules that do not produce very reliable results. The purpose of the paper is to present the structure, content, and current state of validity of the model.

German technology policy has undergone a particularly remarkable change in recent years. Traditionally, the reference units of German technology policy were single firms, technologies or sectors. Since the mid-90`s the German Federal Government has discovered the region as a new reference unit...

The Black Sea has severe water pollution problems during the last three decades due to tremendous loads of different types of pollutants discharged from the entire basin Therefore, finding solutions to improve the environmental status of the Black Sea is one of the critical issues. Previous...

In this paper we use a generalized entropy index such as the Theil index to analyze regional inequalities in Europe. We proved that there is a synchronization between the convergence and catching-up process of objective 1 regions towards the EU15 average with the reform of the EU regional...