Spatial Dynamics of European Integration

1 Spatial Dynamics of European Economic Integration: Prologue.- A: European Monetary Unification and Implications.- 2 Winners and Losers in the European Monetary Union: A Neural Network Analysis of Industrial Spatial Shifts.- 3 Costs of European Monetary Union: Evidence of Monetary and Fiscal Policy Effectiveness.- 4 Specialisation in Europe and Asymmetric Shocks: Potential Risks of EMU.- 5 The Regional Impact of the Single Currency.- 6 Trade and Investments in the EMU Regions.- 7 Convergence of European Financial Systems: Banks or Equity Markets?.- B: Economic Integration, Cohesion and Regional Policy.- 8 The Dynamics of Economic Integration and Cohesion in the EU: Experiences from the Past and Challenges for the Future.- 9 The Control of Regional State Aid under EU Competition Policy and Its Effects on Economic and Social Cohesion.- 10 On-Going European Integration and the Position of the Regions: An Analysis of the Process and Some Possible Future Scenarios.- 11 Convergence, Dualism and Regional Disparities: The Italian Case.- 12 Capital and Labour Productivity Convergence of Manufacturing Industry in the Regions of Greece.- 13 Prospects of the Finnish Regional Development under EMU and Deepening Integration.- C: Community Enlargement Towards Central and Eastern Europe: Problems and Prospects.- 14 The Problem of Transition and Reintegration of East and Central Europe: Conceptual Remarks and Empirical Problems.- 15 The Central and Eastern European Union Enlargement and the EMU: Nominal Convergence and the Optimum Currency Areas Approach.- 16 The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe: A Neo-Institutional Comparative Analysis.- 17 Economic Impacts of the EU Enlargement on Austrian Regions.- Author Index.- List of Contributors.

Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and in Economic Geography at the VU University, Amsterdam. His main research interests cover quantitative plan evaluation, regional and urban modelling, multicriteria analysis, transport systems analysis, mathematical systems modelling, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental and resource management, and sustainable development. In the past years he has focussed his research in particular on new quantitative methods for policy analysis, as well as on spatial-behavioural analysis of economic agents. He has a broad expertise in the area of public policy, services planning, infrastructure management and environmental protection. In all these fields he has published many books and numerous articles.
In 1996, he was awarded the most prestigious scientific prize in the Netherlands, the Spinoza award. Manfred M. Fischer (born in 1947, Nuremberg, Germany) graduated in geography and mathematics from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany). He holds a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) on urban modelling from the same university (1975), and a habilitation degree in human geography from the University of Vienna (1982). Since 1988 he is professor in economic geography and GIScience at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
For more than thirty years he has consistently made significant contributions to regional science and GIScience in general, and spatial analysis, GeoComputation and spatial econometrics in particular. He has published widely, both books and articles in more than 30 distinct academic journals.