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Regional Patterns of Industry Location in Transition Countries: Does Economic Integration with the European Union Matter?
No full textResmini L. (2007) Regional patterns of industry location in transition countries: does economic integration with the European Union matter?, Regional Studies 41, 747-764. Recent developments in international trade theory predict that increased globalization will be associated with increased locational concentration of economic activities, and hence increased specialization of national and regional economies. Relatively little empirical evidence exists about whether these predictions are correct, especially as regards Central and Eastern Europe. The paper analyses the interplay between economic integration and industry location in four candidate countries during the 1990s. It demonstrates that economic integration with the European Union has changed industry re-location processes within candidate countries, giving rise to a spatial organization of manufacturing productions which is less inward-oriented and more evenly distributed across regions than it was at the beginning of the transition process. Resmini L. (2007) La distribution regionale de la localisation industrielle dans les pays en voie de transition: l'integration economique a l'Ue, importe-t-il?, Regional Studies 41, 747-764. Les developpements recents dans la theorie du commerce international prevoient que la course a la mondialisation s'associe a la concentration geographique des activites economiques et, par la suite, a la specialisation accrue des economies nationales et regionales. Rares sont les preuves empiriques de la justesse de ces previsions-la, surtout pour ce qui est de l'Europe centrale et orientale. Cet article cherche a analyser l'interaction entre l'integration economique et la localisation industrielle dans quatre pays-candidats pendant les annees 1990. On demontre que l'integration economique a l'Ue a modifie les processus de relocalisation industrielle au sein des pays-candidats, ce qui a entraine une organisation geographique du tissu industriel qui s'avere moins nombriliste et distribuee plus uniformement a travers les regions qu'il ne l'etait au debut de la periode de transition. Localisation industrielle Integration economique Pays en voie de transition Resmini L. (2007) Regionale Muster der industriellen Umsiedelung in U-super-�bergangslanden: kommt es auf eine wirtschaftliche Integration in die EU an?, Regional Studies 41, 747-764. Die jU-super-�ngsten Entwicklungen in der Welthandelstheorie haben zur Prognose gefU-super-�hrt, dass eine erhohte Globalisierung mit einer erhohten lokalen Konzentration der Wirtschaftstatigkeiten einhergehen wird, wodurch sich die Spezialisierung der nationalen und regionalen Wirtschaften erhohen wird. Hinsichtlich der Richtigkeit dieser Prognosen liegen nur relativ wenige empirische Belege vor, insbesondere was Mittel- und Osteuropa anbelangt. In diesem Beitrag werden die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wirtschaftsintegration und Industriestandort in vier Kandidatenlandern wahrend der neunziger Jahre untersucht. Gezeigt wird, dass die wirtschaftliche Integration in die EU zu einer Veranderung der industriellen Umsiedelungsprozesse in den Kandidatenlandern und zu einer raumlichen Organisation der produzierenden Industrie gefU-super-�hrt hat, die weniger nach innen orientiert und gleichmassiger U-super-�ber die Regionen verteilt ist als zu Beginn des U-super-�bergangsprozesses. Industriestandort Wirtschaftsintegration U-super-�bergangslander Resmini L. (2007) Modelos regionales de ubicacion industrial en paises de transicion: �Es importante la integracion economica en la UE?, Regional Studies 41, 747-764. Los ultimos avances sobre la teoria del comercio internacional vaticinan que una mayor globalizacion estara vinculada a una mayor concentracion de ubicacion de actividades economicas, y por ende ocurrira una aumento en la especializacion de las economias nacionales y regionales. Existen pruebas empiricas relativamente escasas para saber si estas predicciones son correctas, sobre todo en lo que concierne a Europa central y oriental. En este articulo analizo la interaccion entre la integracion economica y la ubicacion industrial en cuatro paises candidatos durante la decada de los noventa. Demuestro que la integracion economica en la UE ha cambiado los procesos de reubicacion de la industria en los paises candidatos, causando la aparicion de una organizacion espacial de produccion manufacturera que esta menos orientada hacia dentro y distribuida mas equilibradamente en las regiones de lo que estaba al principio del proceso de transicion. Ubicacion de la industria Integracion economica Paises de transicionIndustry location, Economic integration, Transition countries,
The determinants of FDI: a new network-based approach
No full textThis article investigates the determinants of FDI at sub-national level. It recognizes that MNEsModified Letter Turned Comma foreign activities are organized in networks of strongly interconnected, but geographically dispersed affiliates. This implies a different approach to the analysis of the determinants of FDI, which should focus on contextual factors able to stimulate economic relations at distance. Methodologically, we use a gravity-type model and different regression techniques with a new dataset on networks of FDI involving German and Italian regions. We find evidence that technologically proximate regions sharing the same industry profile are more likely to experience positive and large networks driven by MNEs, with weaker evidence related to cultural and institutional proximities, which cannot compensate the negative impact of geographic distance. The distinctive contribution of this paper is to emphasize that local policies to attract FDI are more likely to succeed if addressed to similar regions
FDI in the Mediterranean Region: a Comparison with the the CEE experience”, Femise Research Programme, January 2000.
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OCCURRENCE OF PROTEIN-BOUND LYSYLPYRROLALDEHYDE IN DRIED PASTA
No full textThe extent of the advanced Maillard reaction (MR) involving protein-bound lysylketoses degradation that occurs in pasta drying was studied by evaluating furosine and lysylpyrrolaldehyde (LPA). By enzymatic hydrolysis followed by solid-phase extraction and ion pair reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (IP-RP HPLC) with 297-nm detection, protein-bound LPA was separated without interference and quantified in pasta products using carboxy-2-pyrrolaldehyde as the external standard. Model doughs containing different amounts of cold or [U-14C]-labeled glucose or maltose and pasta processed under different heating conditions were considered. A close relationship between the accumulation behaviors of furosine and protein-bound LPA was observed, confirming that LPA is a main derivative of lysylketoses residues. Further degradation of LPA was detected only under thermal treatments not applicable in pasta drying. Under the pasta processing conditions of a semipilot plant, and with semolina of known origin and free sugar composition, LPA formation was enhanced (> 12 mg/100 g of protein) when the drying cycle included temperatures close to 80-degrees-C or higher, and pasta moisture values were close to 15% or lower. Under low-temperature (50-degrees-C) conditions, no LPA was produced. Another key parameter was the concentration of reducing sugars, the most effective being glucose. Although other aminoketoses besides lysylketoses are probably formed and degraded, furosine and LPA evaluation seems to sufficiently describe the MR extent occurring on pasta protein. Considering the undesirable sensorial changes of pasta attributable to extensive MR, the possible antinutritional properties reported for LPA, and the wide range of LPA values (from 0 to over 40 mg/100 g of protein) found in commercial spaghetti, a better control of the advanced MR in this food is advisable
Teorie, Modelli e Metodi nelle Scienze Regionali. Competitività e Politiche Regionali, Vol. 1
No full textEvaluation of the stable reaction products of histidine with formaldehyde or with other carbonyl compounds in dairy products
No full textCombined formaldehyde (FA) can be evaluated in cheese and other dairy products by determining spinacine (6-carboxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroimidazopyridine), an imino acid arising from the reaction of FA with the x-amino group of histidine. Other carbonyl compounds usually produced by fermentations can react themselves with histidine, forming molecules which interfere with the determination of spinacine. A sensitive (minimum detectable amount, 5 fmol spinacine) and interference-free HPLC method, with precolumn derivatization with o-phtalaldehyde (OPA) and 9-fluorenylmethylchloroformate (FMOC), to evaluate these histidine reaction-compounds in dairy products is described. The clean-up of the FMOC-derivatized sample has been performed for the first time with solid-phase extraction (SPE) on an amino cartridge. The method was applied to samples of casein and differently ripened cheese, the origins of which were either known or commercial, in order to quantify the natural level of spinacine (0.7-2.7 ppm) probably deriving from biogenic FA, and to detect whether FA was used in processing
Teorie, Modelli e Metodi nelle Scienze Regionali. Struttura, Dinamica e Pianificazione dei Sistemi urbani, Vol. 2
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