@techreport{Krieger-Boden2002European,
abstract = {The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing interregional competition and affecting the interregional division of labor. From a theoretical standpoint, rising specialization and polarization of European regions may result from this
process, and may entail a growing core-periphery-divide of regional income. Such a supposition evokes questions on the need of an accompanying compensatory regional policy and its adequate design. I find that a case for regional policy cannot be denied, but that the EU largely overstates the need for such a policy at EU level, and should abstain from direct structural interventions into
regional economies.},
address = {Kiel},
author = {Christiane Krieger-Boden},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {F12; F15; N11; R12; R58; 330; integration; regional policy; regional specialization; regional polarization; EU structural policy; EU-Regionalpolitik; Wirtschaftsunion; Regionale Arbeitsteilung; Regionale Disparit\"{a}t; EU-Strukturfonds; Theorie; EU-Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {1135},
publisher = {Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)},
title = {European integration and the case for compensatory regional policy},
type = {Kieler Arbeitspapiere},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2879},
year = {2002}
}
