REAL focuses on the development and application of systemic economic models at the urban and regional levels. Since 2015, REAL has hosted more than 110 graduate students and visiting scholars from China, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Chile, and Spain among other countries.

Riccardo Crescenzi. Full Professor, London School of Economics, United Kingdom. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Dusan Paredes. Full Professor, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Catholic University of the North, Chile. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |   October 23 09:00 -10:00 am Central Time (US) Join Zoom Meeting by clicking here Meeting ID: 997 1523 2314 Passcode: 923169 Riccardo Crescenzi  Full Professor, London School of Economics, UK "The Impact of Chinese FDI in Africa: Evidence From Ethiopia" We exploit exogenous variation in China’s export taxes to investigate the impact of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia.  Higher sector-specific export taxes in China lead to more Chinese  FDI in  Ethiopian  districts  specialized  in  those  sectors. Combining this variation with the universe of FDI projects and the census of manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, we observe highly heterogeneous effects. Domestic firms competing with Chinese FDI reduce their sales, investment and inputs, as output prices drop. Firms operating in upstream and downstream sectors expand their sales, investment and inputs. To study the short and medium run aggregate impact of Chinese FDI on local economic activity, we build a 20-year district panel combining night lights data from two satellites through a machine-learning algorithm.  Chinese FDI leads to no instantaneous impact on local growth, but significant and persistently positive effects in the medium run. Dusan Paredes Full Professor, Catholic University of the North, CL "Subnational crowding out and mining localities: Does the level of local provision of public goods matter?" In spite of the resource curse provides evidence on the national crowding out generated by mining resource windfalls, little attention has been put on the subnational crowding. This gap is a problem because these windfalls should cover the negative externalities widely spread on these communities. Additionally, these communities have different fiscal responsibilities forced by the environmental, economic, and social costs generated by the mining industry, becoming them in a group of municipalities hardly comparable with the rest of local communities. This article estimates the subnational crowd out of mining resource windfalls on local tax collection according to the different levels of fiscal responsibility using the case of Chile. We employ a panel data for 322 Chilean municipalities between 2008 to 2019 to attribute causality derived from an exogenous rule to assign the mining windfalls in Chile. Our results confirm the crowding out hypothesis, although with different magnitudes: First, per each dollar increase in mining taxes results in a 0.2 US$ decrease in residential property tax. Second, this subnational crowding out doubles in the municipalities with high level of fiscal responsibility, namely 1.0 US$ increase in mining taxes crowd out 0.4US$ in nonresource revenue. Finally, the results for municipalities categorized with low-level in fiscal responsibility not significant. These results call for local policies that take into account the fiscal capacity of the municipalities to effectively disincentive undesirable behavior derived from extra resource revenues.

Week of Innovative Regions in Europe (WIRE) is the main European policy forum for innovation and regional development. The conference provides a platform for policy makers, public authorities, knowledge centers and enterprises to discuss research and innovation (R&I) practices, challenges and opportunities throughout the European regions, with a direct view on the current and future EU funding programs.

This year, the University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism (Croatia) will host the 11th edition of the “Week of Innovative Regions in Europe“ - WIRE XI 2020 in Split, Croatia.

Due to the exceptional circumstances (COVID-19) event will be organised online. The online event is organized under the agenda of the Croatian EU Council Presidency 2020, with the support of European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation and relevant national authorities: Ministry of Science and Education, Split-Dalmatia County and City of Split.

Attend the WIRE XI 2020 online (4-6 November). Register for free > https://wire2020.eu/Registration

Dear members and colleagues of the Spanish Association of Regional Science,

As you know, the circumstances we are experiencing have forced us to postpone our annual meeting to 2021. Hopefully by the fall of next year the situation will be safer and we can meet and enjoy our International Conference on Regional Science. Meanwhile we have organized what I think is a very interesting and dynamic virtual meeting that, although it does not intend to replace our face-to-face meeting, I believe that it will provide us with the appropriate space to generate interaction and reflection from our community.

The theme of this I Online Conference of Regional Science is “Cities and regions in times of COVID-19”.

On November 26 and 27 we will celebrate this online meeting in which we will have an extraordinary plenary conference, given by Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, and an exceptional round table on the impacts on cities and regions of the global health crisis, given by Professors Phill McCann, Alessandra Faggian and Raúl Ramos. In addition, we have prepared poster sessions to discuss our work in progress and a course on geo-referenced data analysis that will be taught by Daniel Arribas-Bell and Federico Pablo-Martí.

I want to thank the great work that the local organizing committee and the scientific committee are doing. You have all the information about this virtual meeting in this link https://reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/madridvirtual2020/ or in the pdf brochure that we attach with this email.

Registration and participation in all activities is completely free for AECR members.

The cost for non-members is 100 euros, although I encourage you to join for a lower cost and be able to participate in both this activity and all the advantages of being a member of the AECR, including full membership in both the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI).

Write down the dates of this event. We count on your participation. We will send you the call for the poster sessions and other additional information shortly.

Warm regards,

Fernando Rubiera Morollón

President of the Spanish Association of Regional Science

Link to the pdf of the Meeting brochure

The Centre for Research in Economics and Management (NIPE) of the University of Minho, Portugal, is looking for outstanding post-doctoral researchers in Economics and Finance. 

We are offering two positions, for Junior and Assistant Researchers. Applicants to the Junior Researcher position are required to hold a Ph.D. in Finance or Economics, no older than 5 years. The contract is for a maximum of three years. Applicants to the Assistant Researcher position are required to hold a Ph.D. in Economics, no older than 10 years. The contract is for 4 years and can be extended annually for two additional years. Both positions offer internationally competitive salaries including social benefits. Please follow the links for detailed information about the tenders.

Applicants interested in the positions should submit their application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline is October 28th, 2020.

REAL focuses on the development and application of systemic economic models at the urban and regional levels. Since 2015, REAL has hosted more than 110 graduate students and visiting scholars from China, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Chile, and Spain among other countries.

Ting Zhang. Professor, University of Baltimore, USA. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Michael Delgado. Professor, Purdue University, USA. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | October 16 09:00 -10:00 am Central Time (US) Join Zoom Meeting by clicking here Meeting ID: 997 1523 2314 Passcode: 923169

REAL focuses on the development and application of systemic economic models at the urban and regional levels. Since 2015, REAL has hosted more than 110 graduate students and visiting scholars from China, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Chile, and Spain among other countries.

Sofía Jiménez. Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |

Natália Branco Stein. PhD Student, Graduate Program in Development Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Special Issue Theme:

“Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Territorial Inequalities Policies”

RSPP-EUREAL initiative coordinated by Ana Vinuela This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The objective of the RSPP Special Issue is to publish scientific work on the design, implementation and evaluation on integrative policy mechanisms to enable supranational, national and regional government agencies to address territorial inequalities and to imagine future spaces in which the allocation of resources is consistent with principles of social and spatial justice.

Topics are:

1. The measurement and understanding of spatial (in)justice and territorial inequalities at national, regional or local level.
2. The impact of the economic crisis, the austerity policies or the Covid-19 on territorial inequalities, especially in relation to the different models of territorial governance, sustainable economic development and public service delivery.
3. Perceptions of spatial (in)justice vs quantifiable territorial inequalities
4. Framing and justification of territorial autonomy movements and their levels of support in relation to the real or perceived spatial (in)justice.
5. Efficacy and appropriateness of current territorial policies and instruments for addressing the challenges of territorial inequalities and spatial justice.

The RSPP Special Issue will combine qualitative and quantitative research papers and methods at multiple scales of enquiry.

Important Dates:

We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/eterstat2002.pdf

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2020, VOL 10, No 2.

STUDIES

Natalia Zdanowska – Céline Rozenblat – Denise Pumain: Evolution of urban hierarchies under globalisation  in Western and Eastern Europe

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100202.pdf

Luca Salvati: Density-dependent population growth  in Southern Europe (1961–2011):  A non-parametric approach using smoothing splines

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100201.pdf

Zoltán Bánhidi– Imre Dobos – András Nemeslaki: What the overall Digital Economy and Society Index reveals: A statistical analysis of the DESI EU28 dimensions

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100209.pdf

Ngo Thai Hung: Volatility spillovers and time-frequency correlations between Chinese and African stock markets

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100203.pdf

Fernando Antonio Ignacio González: Regional price dynamics in Argentina (2016–2019)

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100205.pdf

Haryo Kuncoro: Regional inflation dynamics and its persistence –  The case of selected regions in Indonesia

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100211.pdf

Dimitrios Tsiotas– Umut Erdem – K. Mert Cubukcu: Outlining the historical framework of the aviation sector in Turkey: A spatiotemporal approach

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100204.pdf

Csilla Nezdei: The prospects of regional market place developments in economic geographical perspective Case study of Balaton Resort Area, Hungary 

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100206.pdf

Mihály Lados–Éva Szabina Somossy–Tamás Tóth: Regional Statistics, Vol. 10. No. 2. 2020: 166–185; DOI: 10.15196/RS100207 Financial subsidies and the location decision of solar power plants in Hungary: An empirical investigation

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100207.pdf

Zsombor Szabó– Tibor Sipos: Separation effects in a microregion: traffic volume estimation between the settlements of Lake Velence

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100208.pdf

Balázs Benjámin Budai – István Tózsa: Regional inequalities in front-office services Focus shift in e-government front offices and their regional projections in Hungary

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100212.pdf

VISUALIZATIONS

Áron Kincses–Géza Tóth: How coronavirus spread in Europe over time: national probabilities based on migration networks

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2020/rs100210.pdf

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