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.

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

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