Infrastructure and the Space-Economy

This volume covers a broad spectrum of research in regional economics. The contributions deal with the advancements of spatial economics and problems of regional development and regional policy.

Inhalt
I. Spatial Economics.- Spatial Patterns of Resource Utilization.- Regional Output and Price Effects of Spatial Price Discrimination.- Transport Flows in Tinbergen-Bos Systems.- Economics of Multi-Habitation.- Operationalizing the Trade Variable in a Funck-type Multi-Region Global Model.- II. Infrastructure, Transportation and Regional Development.- The Importance of Infrastructure in Regional Evolution.- Barriers to Technological Transfer: Infrastructural Difficulties in Nigeria.- Telecommunications Infrastructure and Regional Development.- Health Care Modeling A Potential Research Area in Regional Science.- Pareto-Efficient Relation Between Infrastructure and Industry.- Estimation Procedures for Transportation Network Equilibrium Models.- Airline Network Structure and Regional Economic Development: US Case Studies.- Employment Impacts of Infrastructure Investments A Case Study for the Netherlands.- Deregulation and the Problem of Capacity/Price Planning for the Transport and Communication Infrastructure.- III. Regional Economic Structure.- Meso-Economics and Organizational Ecology.- On Concepts of Regional Economic Structure.- How Different Are Regions? An Evolutionary Approach to Regional Inequality.- How not to Lie with Statistics in Regional Analysis.- IV. Regional Policy.- A New Approach in Decision Theory.- The Silver Sheen on the Netherlands A New Perspective for Regional Policy.- New Jobs in Connection with Technology Centres and Research Parks A Case Study from Baden-Württemberg-West Germany .- Poland the Challenging Laboratory of Space Economy.- Economic Reforms in Centrally Planned Economies and their Consequences for Regional Development.- V. Related Topics.- A Theory Explaining Lösch-Cycles.- August Lösch as a Population Analyst.-Development of Economy and Traffic.- Are Car Purchases Savings? An Analysis of German Households.- List of Authors.