Regional Competition

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.

1 Aspects of Regional Competition.- 2 Regional Competition: Endogenous and Policy-Supported Processes.- 3 Hard and Soft Determinants of Interregional Competition.- 4 Infrastructure and Suprastructure in Regional Competition: A Deus ex Machina?.- 5 Industrial Logistics and Regional Competition.- 6 Wilhelm Launhardt: Location Theorist.- 7 Regional Competition and Complementarity: Comparative Advantages/Disadvantages and Increasing/Diminishing Returns in Discrete Relative Spatial Dynamics.- 8 Evolutionary Algorithms for Modelling Interregional Transport Flows.- 9 The Role of Public Enterprises in Regional Competition.- 10 Reflection on Local and Economy-Wide Effects of Territorial Competition.- 11 Disarmament in Germany and Regional Competition.- 12 Regional Competition in the European Union.- 13 The EURO and the Competitiveness of Agglomerations What Does the Single Currency Add?.- Author Index.