Since the 1980s, the European Community has become an engine for liberalization and re-regulation in the network industries of the transport, energy and telecommunications industries. This paper describes major lines of reform in European infrastructure and regulation policy. Both, changes in...

Die Staatskanzlei des Landes Schleswig-Holstein hat das Institut für Weltwirtschaft im Mai 2007 mit der Erstellung einer Studie zum Thema „Potenziale und Chancen zum Aufbau einer gemeinsamen Wirtschaftsregion Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg“ beauftragt, die hiermit vorgelegt wird. Diese...

This paper solves one of the puzzles in the analysis of regional and industrial distributions of economic activity, the discrepancy between absolute and relative measures. It shows that the difference between an absolute and a relative Theil index of localization can be expressed in terms of...

We analyze the concentration of FDI in India at the district level, based on project-specific location choices since the reform program in the early 1990s. The decomposition property of the Theil index allows us to trace changes over time in the overall concentration of FDI to changes in...