The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman's New Economic Geography economic systems have a simple spatial structure. This book shows that more sophisticated models should visualise the EU as an evolving trade network with a specific topology and different aggregation levels. At the highest level, economic geography models give a bird eye's view of spatial dynamics. At a medium level, institutions shape the economy and the structure of (financial and labour) markets. At the lowest level, individual...
The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman's New Economic G...
The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman's New Economic Geography economic systems have a simple spatial structure. At the highest level, economic geography models give a bird eye's view of spatial dynamics.
The uneven geographical distribution of economic activities is a huge challenge worldwide and also for the European Union. In Krugman's New Economic G...
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This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 "The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation."
Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within large economic systems (regions or countries) involving trade, workers migration, and other factor movements. At the meso-level, Part II...
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 "The EU i...
