We analyse the effects of increasing returns and regional integration on industry location and trade. Theoretically, we show that regional integration can induce a non-monotonic locus of industry location inside the customs union, with initial dispersion to the periphery and later concentration in the core. Relationships of locational dispersion with scale economies (monotonically negative) and...

Years of EU fishing catch restrictions have failed to stem the decline of many once abundant species in the northeast Atlantic and fishermen and conservationists are pressing for change.

.................................................................................................................... 1 1 SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EU-CONFORM INSTRUMENT ................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 ANALYSIS OF THE DIRECTIVE ...............................................................

BACKGROUND while numerous ordinances on drug pricing and reimbursement have been enacted, trying to suppress the drug expenditure in Croatia, it seemed there were inconsistencies in pricing procedures of some of the drugs. OBJECTIVES to show whether or not the pricing system given has had the desired result, we review pricing and reimbursement systems of generics in some of the EU countries a...