The analysis presented in this report is intended to provide the FCEDP Research Committee with insights on the economic structure of the regional economy with a particular focus on the identification of specific industrial strengths and weaknesses. The authors are responsible for all errors of omission or commission. The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors with the contri...

The increasing diffusion of automation in all sectors of the industrial world gives rise to a deep modification of labor organization and requires a new approach to evaluate industrial systems efficiency, effectiveness, and economic convenience. Until now, the evaluation tools and methods at disposal of industrial managers are rare and even complex. Easy-to-use criteria, possibly based on robus...

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence on a national scale, the diverging development of highly developed metropolitan regions and lagging rural areas has become a growing challenge especially for the new member states in Central and Eastern Europe. Although it is widely assumed that economically growing countries are usually confronted with rising ineq...

The analysis of economic disparities within the European Union strongly depends on the regional level concerned. Whereas the economic gap between the member states of the EU15 has decreased over the last decades, regional disparities on the NUTS2-level have rather deepened. The reason for these contradictory findings can be found in the increasing disparities within many of the member states: E...

We estimate reference CO2 emission projections in the European Union, and quantify the economic impacts of the Kyoto commitment on Member States. We consider the case where each EU member individually meets a CO2 emissions target, applying a country-wide cap and trade system to meet the target but without trade among countries. We use a version of the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysi...

the eight year war between iran and iraq is a sensitive and critical period in iran's foreign policy; particularly towards the european community. accordingly and in spite of the fact that the foundations of the new regime in iran have not been consolidated a full scale war ,was imposed on iran, overshadowing all policies and plans including iran's foreign policy. this paper tries to ...