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Functional Economic Regions, Accessibility and Regional Development

Charlie Karlsson and Michael Olsson (michael.olsson@his.se)
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Michael Olsson: EFF, & University of Skövde

No 415, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: In this paper, we first present how one can create functional economic regions. Then, we elaborate on the economic activity and spatial interaction, which forms functional regions, and the development of the system of functional regions. Our presentation shows that the economy is structured in functional regions, and hence it is important to use functional regions in economic studies, in order to produce correct results, and for regional policy, in order for the policy to be effective. We observe, that the often used NUTS-regions are very large compared to the functional regions. We argue, therefore, that the use of NUTS-regions ought to be replaced by the use of functional regions. This would lead to more reliable results and better policy outcomes.

Keywords: Functional economic region; accessibility; infrastructure; network; regional policy; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R23 R32 R40 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2015-06-29
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