This book's thirteen contributions bring together the results of recent research on determinants of regional specialization, growth, and convergence in the context of European integration. They offer fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures,...

1. Post-Crisis Growth: Prospects in the European Union -- 2. Convergence Is Alive and Well in Europe -- 3. Unconventional Monetary Policy in the United States and Europe -- 4. Time to Tidy up EU Competition on Information Exchange Object Restriction Concerted Practices? -- 5. European Union...