Specialisation and spatial concentration in the economy of a Europe of the regions Authors Joachim Möller Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Regensburg, 93040, Regensburg DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03182926 Keywords: Article Abstract The subject of the paper is to analyse the development of the economic structure of regions and the concentration of economic activities in space. An important non-linearity obtained from new regional economics is stressed: the importance of the core increases at the early stage of the development, but then declines again. A similar pattern can be derived for specialisation. Against this background a discussion follows on whether specialisation trends will change after the completion of European Economic and Monetary Union and what would be the consequences. 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