Industrial growth, economic integration and structural change: Evidence from the EU new member-states regions

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 667-680

  Kallioras, Dimitris ^a   Petrakos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

O14; P25; R11

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; REGIONAL ECONOMY; STRUCTURAL CHANGE;

EUROPE;

EID: 77955099867     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-009-0296-5     Document Type: Article

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