“…Additionally, the importance of transportation and border-crossing infrastructure, i.e., accessibility (Lundquist & Winther, 2006), in the economic development of border regions has been highlighted (Nelles & Sutcliffe, 2013). Finally, economic aspects of regional development in border regions have commonly been discussed in terms of cross-border inter-firm linkages, networking (Dimitrov, Petrakos, Totev, & Tsiapa, 2003;Geenhuizen, Knaap, & Nijkamp, 1996) and export flows (Ciżkowicz, Rzońca, & Umiński, 2013;Tykkyläinen & Lehtonen, 2008).…”