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Regional Competition

  • This book covers basic approaches and offers high-level contributions to essential problems of regional competition
  • Introduction into definitions of regional competition (RC), promotion of RC, models of RC, algorithms of RC, verification of RC, empirical observation of RC and policies: context, goals, instruments and evaluations of RC
  • Contains new ideas to problems of EU policies concerning RC

Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Foundations of Regional Competition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Aspects of Regional Competition

      • Peter Batey, Peter Friedrich
      Pages 3-33
    3. Industrial Logistics and Regional Competition

      • Philip McCann
      Pages 108-127
  3. Models of Regional Competition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Wilhelm Launhardt: Location Theorist

      • Martin Beckmann
      Pages 131-138
    3. Evolutionary Algorithms for Modelling Interregional Transport Flows

      • Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp, Enrico Sabella
      Pages 159-185
    4. The Role of Public Enterprises in Regional Competition

      • Peter Friedrich, Xiao Feng
      Pages 186-201
  4. Policies for Regional Competition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
    2. Regional Competition in the European Union

      • Filip Abraham
      Pages 247-259
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 281-294

About this book

Many parts of the world are currently experiencing the outcome of processes of economic integration, globalization and transformation. Technological advances in telecommunications and in transport facilities have opened up new possibilities for contracts and exchanges among regions. External effects among regions have increased in importance. As a result, competition among regions has intensified. Except some pioneering work by regional scientists and scholars of public finance and economics, the phenomenon of regional competition has yet to attract the attention it warrants, despite its importance for policy-making. The present volume is intended to remedy this neglect by providing high-level contributions to the three main topics of the book, the theory of regional competition, methods of analysis of regional competition and policies of regional competition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Peter W. J. Batey

  • Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften, Universität der Bundeswehr München, München, Germany

    Peter Friedrich

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Regional Competition

  • Editors: Peter W. J. Batey, Peter Friedrich

  • Series Title: Advances in Spatial Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04234-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-67548-8Published: 04 August 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08701-1Published: 05 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04234-2Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1430-9602

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9375

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 290

  • Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional/Spatial Science, Geography, general

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