EU integration and the geographies of economic activity: 1985–2019

IF 4.6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2022-09-26 DOI:10.1177/0308518X221127028

Eleonora Cutrini, B. Gardiner, R. Martin

引用次数: 1

Abstract

One of the central predictions of the new economic geography (NEG) is that the removal of trade barriers and other such frictions should lead to the geographical concentration and specialisation of economic activity, both between and within nations. This prediction has been used to argue that as the European Union becomes more integrated, economic activity would become more regionally concentrated and specialised. Using relative entropy measures applied to a new regional data set for the period of 1985–2019, this paper finds that between 1985 and 2000 localisation and specialisation between European countries increased to some extent but with a widespread fall in specialisation and concentration within countries. After 2000, and particularly after 2007 and the Global financial Crisis, the spatial distribution of economic activities in Europe appears to have become more complex, with some degree of concentration, agglomeration and specialisation both across and within countries. Overall, however, we find little long-run support for the NEG prediction.

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欧盟一体化与经济活动地理:1985-2019

新经济地理学(NEG)的核心预测之一是，消除贸易壁垒和其他此类摩擦应导致国家之间和国家内部经济活动的地理集中和专业化。这一预测被用来论证，随着欧盟变得更加一体化，经济活动将变得更加区域性集中和专业化。本文对1985年至2019年期间的新区域数据集使用了相对熵度量，发现1985年至2000年期间，欧洲国家之间的本地化和专业化在一定程度上有所增加，但各国内部的专业化和集中度普遍下降。2000年之后，特别是2007年和全球金融危机之后，欧洲经济活动的空间分布似乎变得更加复杂，在国家之间和国家内部都出现了一定程度的集中、集聚和专业化。然而，总的来说，我们发现对NEG预测的长期支持很少。

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Multiple-

CiteScore

9.50

自引率

9.50%

发文量

100

期刊介绍： Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is a pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. International in outlook and interdisciplinary in spirit, the journal is positioned at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, welcoming substantive and empirical contributions that probe and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern, especially where these advance new approaches. The horizons of Economy and Space are wide, but themes of recurrent concern for the journal include: global production and consumption networks; urban policy and politics; race, gender, and class; economies of technology, information and knowledge; money, banking, and finance; migration and mobility; resource production and distribution; and land, housing, labor, and commodity markets. To these ends, Economy and Space values a diverse array of theories, methods, and approaches, especially where these engage with research traditions, evolving debates, and new directions in urban and regional studies, in human geography, and in allied fields such as socioeconomics and the various traditions of political economy.