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References. These should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name and the year of publication, as follows: Weaver (1978) or (Weaver, 1978). If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be put after the year of publication. The references should be listed in full at the end of the paper in the following standard form:

AOKI, M. (1986) Horizontal versus vertical information structure of the firm, American Economic Review, 9, pp. 167-176.

BAILLY, A. (1985) The service sector as a motor for endogenous development, in M. BASSAND, E. BRUGGER, J. BRYDEN, J. FRIEDMAN AND B. STUCKEY (Eds) Self-reliant Development in Europe: Theory, Problems, Action, pp. 112-122. Aldershot: Gower.

BULLMANN, U., COOLEY, M. and EINEMANN, E. (Eds) (1986) Lokale Beschaftigungs-initiativen. Konzepte-Praxis-Probleme. Marburg: Sp-Verlag.

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (1991) The Regions in the 1990s. Brussels: CEC.

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