This paper discusses selected theories of the firm generally developed in neighbouring fields of the discipline economic geography.

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances,we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment...

Die vorliegende Ausgabe unserer Zeitschrift "Wirtschaft und Management" widmet sich nun mehr zum zweiten Mal dem Schwerpunkt "Standortwettbewerb und Regionen", dem neben Risikomanagement/Basel II zweiten strategischen Forschungsbereich an der FH des bfi Wien. Bereits im Jahr 2007 wurden unter...

Die vorliegende siebte Ausgabe unserer Schriftenreihe "Wirtschaft und Management" widmet sich dem zweiten Forschungsschwerpunkt der Fachhochschule "Standortwettbewerb und Regionen". Im Rahmen dieses Schwerpunkt wird ein drei Jahre laufendes Forschungsvorhaben "Chancen und Perspektiven für die...

IntroductionEntrepreneurship is a fundamental driver of economic evolution. It is also a distinctly spatially unevenprocess, and thus an important explanation of the uneven economic development of regions andnations. Not surprisingly, entrepreneurship is a key element of evolutionary economics...

In this paper we explore the hypothesis of spatial effects in the distribution of ForeignDirect Investments (FDI) across Russian regions. We make use of a model, whichdescribes FDI inflows as resulting from an agglomeration effect (the level of FDI in agiven region depends positively on the...

We investigate the impact of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internalgeography of a domestic economy linked to the rest of the World through a hub. We address that issue bydeveloping two three regions model, namely a version of the Footlose Entrepreneur and a...

In this paper we build a quality-augmented version of an economic geography model whereconsumers have heterogenous tastes for a set of manufacturing varieties. We discuss afootloose capital model and a footloose entrepreneur model. We show that firms selling thegoods with higher values select...

We investigate the role of the transport sector in structuring the location of economic activitywithin two-region economic geography models of the footloose capital and core-peripherytypes. In our setting, competitive carriers offer transport services for shipping manufacturedgoods across...

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number andthe location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases whentrade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production intoa single country, which is likely to be the...