Edited by Peter Nijkamp, Professor Emeritus, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the Centre for European Studies, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Romania and the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China, Ronald L. Moomaw, Spears School of Business, College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, US and Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag, Head, Centre for International Macroeconomic Analysis, The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland and Senior Fellow, Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), University of Bonn, Germany