Die COVID-19-Krise hatte erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Grenzregion Polen - Deutschland. Der Beitrag untersucht, ob die Pandemie tatsächlich den Abstand zwischen der Grenzregion als strukturschwacher Region und dem Rest von Deutschland erhöhen wird, oder ob die Krise sogar eine Chance bietet....

This article examines the implementation and effectiveness of the European structural and investment funds with regard to regional governance. The study uses the example of development processes in two border regions in Bavaria, the district of Cham on the Bavarian-Czech border and the district...

The aim of this paper is to determine whether since 2000 the areas along the border with the Czech Republic have developed in such a way that a location on the border is no longer practically synonymous with structural weakness or whether this is at least less pronounced than it was. Living and...

The EUREGIO EGRENSIS cooperation area was established in 1990 and is acknowledged and appreciated by political actors. It serves here as a heuristic for a multitude of spatial processes. On the one hand, it reflects the changing political and economic conditions of cross-border cooperation...

The political dynamic in the Bavarian-Czech border area is still characterised and challenged by its location along the former Iron Curtain as well as its history of war and displacement. This particular situation has led to a unique pattern of cooperation. In comparison to other border areas it...

The institutionalisation of border regions has a long history. Initial forms of cooperation usually emerged in relation to a specific event. The 1970s were decisive for the emergence of cross-border organisations in both the Greater Region and the Upper Rhine region. Over the decades the...

This chapter presents the foundations of spatial planning in the sub-regions of the Greater Region and the Upper Rhine region. It provides a picture of current developments concerning the guiding principles for spatial development and introduces the existing spatial structures of these border...

In recent decades the challenges of globalisation, European integration and strengthened regionalisation have led to a reassessment of metropolitan regions. In Germany, the guiding principles issued by the Conference of Ministers for Spatial Planning in 2006 provided an occasion on which to...

This chapter describes the process by which a cross-border metropolitan region develops, using the example of the Greater Region. Between 2008 and 2010 the idea of a cross-border, polycentric metropolitan region in the Greater Region was investigated and further developed within the ESPON...

This paper presents an introduction to forms of cooperation on European, intergovernmental, federal state, regional and municipal levels. The EU Community Initiative INTERREG is described as a significant funding instrument for cross-border cooperation. This excursus thus provides background...

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die politischen Rahmenbedingungen von Digitalisierung auf der europäischen, nationalen, regionalen und kommunalen deutschen sowie grenzüberschreitenden Ebene. Digitalisierungsbestrebungen im LAG-Gebiet sowie in der Grenzregion Großregion Saar-Lor-Lux+ werden...

In this paper, I examine how the growth of offshore assembly in Mexico has affected manufacturing activity in U.S. border cities. Under the offshore assembly provision of the U.S. tariff schedule, goods that are assembled abroad using U.S.-manufactured components receive preferential tariff...

In this article, a number of demographic factors influencing the processes of sustainable economic development in particular context of tourism in the Carpathian Euroregion have been analyzed. It is generally articulated that tourism is one of the priority economic activities recommended for...

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die politischen Rahmenbedingungen von Digitalisierung auf der europäischen, nationalen, regionalen und kommunalen deutschen sowie grenzüberschreitenden Ebene. Digitalisierungsbestrebungen im LAG-Gebiet sowie in der Grenzregion Großregion Saar-Lor-Lux+ werden...

The paper focuses on the impact COVID-19 has on Czech cross-border commuters. Emphasis is placed on the legal and political science perspective and on the comparison of measures against traffic at the state border, against the free movement of persons and specifically against commuter workers...

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...

Does the organisation of healthcare systems affect health outcomes in a pandemic situation? To answer this question, we analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate outcomes and exploited the heterogeneity of the healthcare organisational models among Italian...

I document a new empirical pattern of internal mobility in the United States. Namely, county-tocounty migration and commuting drop off discretely at state borders. People are three times as likely to move to a county 15 miles away, but in the same state, than to move to an equally distant county...

Consumers living near the U.S.-Canada border can shift their expenditures between the two countries, so real exchange rate fluctuations can act as demand shocks to border areas' retail trade industries. Using annual county-level data, we estimate the effects of real exchange rates on the number...

International economic integration yields large potential welfare effects, even in a static constant returns competitive world economy. Our method is novel. The effect of border barriers on trade flows is often inferred from gravity models. But their rather atheoretic structure precludes welfare...

We exploit the expansion of the European Union as a natural experiment to study the labor market consequences of open borders. The eastern enlargement of the EU differentially exposed workers in different regions and occupations in Finland to foreign workforce. Using a triple-differences...

International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining "border effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution...

Competition on the German gasoline market is of interest for economists, competition authorities and the general public alike. In this paper, I analyse how constantly lower gasoline prices in Poland affect the prices set in the German border region. More precisely, I estimate the impact of one...

The solution of city planning tasks of the significant coal resource potential use and sustainable living environment creation in the coal mining areas with the use of boundaries of urban coal mining areas and interposition of settlements is considered. There are substantiate the possibility of...

Territorial development and border cities. A theoretical debate / Eduardo Medeiros -- The challenge for economic development and innovation in border regions / Bjørnar Sæther -- Cross-border planning and border cities. A theoretical proposal / Antoine Decouville, Frédéric Durand and...

Introduction : Frontiers in Flux -- Rubber in French Indochina -- Market Formation in Tbong Khmum Province -- Mobilizing Cassava Networks in Mondulkiri -- Frontier Rupture -- Intervening in Market Formation -- Conclusion : Re-examining Frontier Markets.

This publication examines the role of border regions in shaping patterns of violence since the end of the 1990s in North and West Africa. Using the innovative OECD Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator (SCDi), the report looks at the growing relationship between political violence and borderlands...

This book focuses on how to promote cross-border economic cooperation in the context of China national strategy including BRI. This book summarizes the existing regional economic development theories and sorts out the relevant theories of cross-border economic cooperation. Then, it analyzes the...

Movements in the real exchange rate between countries sharing an international border act as a demand shock, especially for the retail, entertainment and restaurant sectors located near the border. This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of fluctuations in the nominal exchange...

The study deals with the problems of Euroregions in the context of their multifunctionality. Multifunctionality is presented by analyzing the institutional structure and objectives pursued. The institutional structure presents the functions of individual Euroregional institutions and the...

What global and local risks and long-term challenges is the Bothnian Arc cross-border area exposed to? And how can societies and economies in this area anticipate and respond to them to ensure resilient long-term development paths? Answering these questions was the challenge of Nordregio...

Digitalisation is impacting various facets of society and holds great potential in radically changing the ways businesses are operating. Despite these radical changes, little has been said about the impact of digitalisation on micro-, small and medium-sized businesses within the marine sector....

The border as vehicle -- The rise of Europe's border infrastructures -- The shape of technopolitics -- Detection, detention and design at the airport -- Surveilling landscapes and seascapes -- The portable provision of care and control -- Infrastructural investigations -- Extreme infrastructure.