Scientific and technical cooperation (STC) is an important knowledge spillover method that
significantly impacts the development of regional innovation systems. Although previous …

abstract The literature on borders as barriers to economic growth presents some
weaknesses in conceptualizing and measuring border effects due to obstacles of different …

Border effects have long been studied and are a central element of EU regional policies.
While most literature takes a macroeconomic approach, this paper adopts a microeconomic …

This study investigates the dynamics of human capital in borderlands, focusing on the case
of the Minho River border between Spain and Portugal. We examine how this capital …

The paper presents a discontinuity‐based analysis of the settlement pattern changes in the
Czechia–Poland cross‐border historical region of Těšín Silesia. An approach based on a …

Despite the relatively large number of gas stations reached in Spain after decades of
sectorial reforms, pre-tax fuel prices in the country remain systematically among the highest …

This paper empirically investigates the dynamics of price dispersion in retail fuel markets as
a response to the corresponding wholesale price changes. For this purpose we take …

This paper takes into consideration that, in the presence of cross-region heterogeneity in the
distribution of within-region price differentials, the impact of borders can be much smaller …

边界作为政治实体管辖地域的分界线, 造成了社会经济空间的不连续性, 进而形成了政治,
经济和文化差异. 边界是各种要素跨界自由流动的关键界面, 其屏蔽或中介效应影响一国或地区 …

The European integration struggles with several problems, especially on the regional level.
One of these issues is cross-border mobility. Thus, our research aims to assess the potential …