Globalization in General -- Globalization, spatial allocation of resources and spatial impacts: A conceptual framework -- Urban development in the global periphery: The consequences of economic and ideological globalization -- The Urban Hierarchy -- Impact of globalization on cities and city-related policies in India -- The impacts of globalization on the urban spatial-economic system in Korea …
Executive Summary -- Methodology and Coverage of the Study -- Characteristics and Development of the Tax Systems -- The Effective Tax Burdens in the Assessed Countries -- International Comparison of Effective Tax Burdens -- Supplement: The Impact of Shareholder Taxation -- Summary and Conclusions.The tax burden on investment or companies is an important factor for the attractiveness of a countr…
Introduction: The Challenge of Structural Change for Industrial Cities and Regions in the CEE Countries -- Austria: The Process of Restructuring is Largely Complete -- Bulgaria: Identifying Regions of Industrial Decline -- Czech Republic: Towards the Reclamation of Derelict Land -- Germany: Tackling the East-West Divide -- Hungary: An Umbrella Plan for the Regions -- Latvia: A Centre-Oriented C…
Plenary of Submitted Papers -- About Invalid, Valid and Clean Polygons -- 3D Geographic Visualization: The Marine GIS -- Local Knowledge Doesn’t Grow on Trees: Community-Integrated Geographic Information Systems and Rural Community Self-Definition -- Web GIS -- A Flexible Competitive Neural Network for Eliciting User’s Preferences in Web Urban Spaces -- Combining Heterogeneous Spatial Data …
Introduction: Cross Atlantic Perspectives in Methods and Models Analysing Transport and Telecommunications -- Traffic Forecasting and Transport Network Analysis -- Urban Travel Forecasting in the USA and UK -- Towards Developing a Travel Time Forecasting Model for Location-Based Services: A Review -- Transportation Networks, Case-Based Reasoning and Traffic Collision Analysis: A Methodology for…
Beyond Path Dependency and Competitive Convergence -- Tacit Knowledge, Path Dependency and Local Trajectories of Growth -- Regional Transformation and Regional Disequilibrium: New Knowledge Economies and their Discontents -- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization? -- Knowledge-intensive services as a key sector for processes of regional economic innovat…
Simulation Models and Their Application: State of the Art -- Application of a Simulation-Based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model -- The DRACULA Dynamic Network Microsimulation Model -- Dynamic Network Simulation with AIMSUN -- Microscopic Traffic Simulation: Models and Application -- Applications of Transport Simulation -- The Art of the Utilization of Traffic Simulation Models: How Do We Make T…
The Setting -- Overview -- The Development Process -- Economic Planning: History, Role and Effectiveness -- Government Finances and the Saudi Budgetary System -- The Financial Markets -- Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) and Monetary Policy -- The Financial Markets -- The Saudi Capital Market -- The Domestic Sector -- The Private Sector: Challenges and Opportunities -- The Kingdom’s Heart:…
Concepts, Theory and Methods -- The Liability of Smallness: Can We Expect Less Regional Disparities in Small Countries? -- Country Size in Regional Economics -- Measures of Regional Inequality for Small Countries -- Investigating Spatial Patterns of Income Disparities Using Coordinate Transformations and GIS Mapping -- Empirical Evidence -- Regional Employment Disparities in Belgium: Some Empir…
Preface -- 1. Introduction and Goals -- 2. Alternative Formulas for Selected Indices -- 3. Overview of the “Difference of Means” Framework -- 4. Index-Specific Implementations of Difference of Means Formulations -- 5. Index Differences in Registering Area Group Proportions -- 6. Empirical Relationships among Indices -- 7.Distinctions between Displacement and Separation -- 8. Further Comment…