Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XX

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2. Macroeconomic Issues of Regional Growth and Economic Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Economic Integration and Labour Markets: Ways Forward

      • Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp

      Pages 3-23

   3. An Assessment of the Integration of Eastern European Economies in the European Union

      • George M. Korres, Emmanuel Mamatzakis, Christos Staikouras

      Pages 25-38

   4. Looking at the Monetary Integration: Modeling Interest Rate Transmission Dynamics in Greece. Is There any Structural Break After EMU?

      • Dionysios Chionis, Costas Leon

      Pages 39-57

   5. How Harmful is International Tax Competition?

      • Pantelis Kammas, Apostolis Philippopoulos

      Pages 59-73

3. Microeconomic Issues of Regional Growth and Economic Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Exchange Rate Uncertainty in Imperfectly Competitive Industries

      • Ray Barrell, Sylvia D. Gottschalk, Stephen G. Hall

      Pages 77-99

   3. Foreign Direct Investment: Explaining the Regional Location Determinants in South-Eastern European Countries

      • Aikaterini Kokkinou, Ioannis Psycharis

      Pages 101-118

   4. Starting with the Local - a Knowledge-Based Approach to Economic Integration

      • Parminder Singh Sahota, Paul Jeffrey, Mark Lemon

      Pages 119-145

4. Policies and Institutions of Regional Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Education, Research and Regional Economic Disparities in the European Union After 2004 Enlargement: Econometric Models and Policy Challenges

      • Maria-Carmen Guisan, Eva Aguayo

      Pages 149-167

   3. European Regional Convergence: Some Evidence for the Role of Information Communication Technologies

      • Federico Biagi, Massimiliano R. Riggi

      Pages 169-197

   4. Regional Disparities and the Effects of Innovation Activities on Regional Integration

      • George M. Korres, Constantine Tsamadias, Panagiotis Liargkovas

      Pages 199-226

5. Challenges and Prospects for an Integrated Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Research and Technological Development Policy and Innovative Performance: The Greek Case Within the EU

      • John Hatzikian

      Pages 229-250

   3. Financial Autonomy of Local Governments: Case Studies of Finland and Poland

      • Lasse Oulasvirta, Maciej Turala

      Pages 251-267

   4. From Closed to Open Regionalism in Central America: a Preliminary Assessment of the Proposed Belize-Guatemala Free Trade Agreement

      • Michael J. Pisani

      Pages 269-285

   5. Aspects of Regional Social Governance. Welfare Reform in the US Implications for a Global Policy Against Exclusion

      • George Tsobanoglou

      Pages 287-300

6. Back Matter

   Pages 305-308

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Europe suffers from an inadequate capacity to transform scientific and technolo- cal knowledge into business opportunities […] A strong collective effort will be needed in the area of innovation […] To make any real impact on the unemployment problem and the future of forthcoming generations, macroeconomic policies must be backed up by an equally far-sighted range of microeconomic measures […] This range of measures must above all include an extra special effort in the area of training of all types of human resources, of stepping up investment in - search and development and the development of an information society […]. (Romano Prodi, Former President European Commission) There is considerable empirical evidence that investment in Research and Technological Development and Innovation (RTD&I) has a positive cor- lation with the level of economic development. Efforts in the area of RTD&I have been associated in the economic literature with higher growth rates, increases in exports and trade, gains in productivity, growth in income and output, bigger business profits and lower inflation, inter- tional competitiveness, etc. Innovation must apply to all aspects of the activity of a firm (markets, products, processes and services). In this sense, the concept of innovation embraces research and development, technology and training as well as marketing, design and quality, finance, logistics and not least the business management required to mesh these various functions together efficiently.

• Eastern Europe
• Economic Development
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• Import
• Macro-Economic Policy
• development
• economic policy
• innovation
• innovation policy
• labour
• labour market
• regional policy
• regionalization
• science and technology

• Department of Geography, The University of the Aegean, University Hill, Greece

  George M. Korres

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