Table of Contents

1 Aspects of Regional Competition.- 2 Regional Competition: Endogenous and Policy-Supported Processes.- 3 Hard and Soft Determinants of Interregional Competition.- 4 Infrastructure and Suprastructure in Regional Competition: A Deus ex Machina?.- 5 Industrial Logistics and Regional Competition.- 6 Wilhelm Launhardt: Location Theorist.- 7 Regional Competition and Complementarity: Comparative Advantages/Disadvantages and Increasing/Diminishing Returns in Discrete Relative Spatial Dynamics.- 8 Evolutionary Algorithms for Modelling Interregional Transport Flows.- 9 The Role of Public Enterprises in Regional Competition.- 10 Reflection on Local and Economy-Wide Effects of Territorial Competition.- 11 Disarmament in Germany and Regional Competition.- 12 Regional Competition in the European Union.- 13 The EURO and the Competitiveness of Agglomerations What Does the Single Currency Add?.- Author Index.