RSPP Call for Papers

Special Issue on Modelling place attractiveness in the era of Big and Open data

From hedonic house price models on micro-scales to estimations of regional economic resilience on the macro-level, an understanding of the spatial distribution of amenities and the local composition of neighbours and jobs is of key importance. Some of the amenities or attributes that are commonly used in house price modelling, such as quality of housing, job- accessibility as well as proximity to railway stations or nature are relatively easy to measure and integrate in an empirical modelling framework. Factors relating to perceptions about neighbourhood characteristics, status or even architecture may be far more difficult to account for in a satisfactory way. Moreover neighbourhood characteristics, amenities and prices are partly linked by circular causation.

In recent years, an increasing amount of spatio-temporal data have been made publically and openly available for research, particularly in online map-databases and through API: s. This development enables researchers to connect weather, transport schedules, and detailed geocoded databases listing a wide range of amenities to data on urban form, street-networks and housing. The new data sources enable us to reformulate the way we measure and use amenities in econometric models.

In this call we invite presentations that problematize and develop methods and theories that can be used to better understand and define amenities in studies of housing markets or place attractiveness.

We specifically invite papers that address questions relating to:

• Combining hedonic price house price models and spatial analysis
• The study of temporal variations, including yearly, seasonal and diurnal patterns, of availability and attraction of amenities
• Theory and methods for the measure of accessibility to green and blue resources using spatial analysis and GIS
• Enriching models on mezzo- and macro-scales using disaggregate spatial and temporal data for the creation of variables.
• The use of international resources and classifications of data that could be integrated in comparative modelling.
• Usage of data from demographic and socio-economic micro-data registers, and the creation of bespoke neighbour statistics.
• Usage of Big data, smart data and qualitative methods
• Integrating mobility and the ambient population in measures of place attractiveness
• Architecture, space syntax, and urban form – what are the connections between the spatial form of the urban landscape and place attraction?
• The modelling of causal impacts rather than correlations, as well as of endogenous amenities
• Modelling approaches focusing on location choice and selection processes in view of idiosyncratic amenities.

Interested scholars are encouraged to submit an article in the platform of Regional Science Policy and Practice (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) until February 15, 2020. The papers will be on-line after accepted by a blind peer review process. The accepted paper will be compiled in a special issue on the fall of 2020.

Editors: John Östh (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Umut Türk and Jie Huang

Call for Abstracts and Special Session Proposals

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Abstracts and Special Session Proposals for RSAI Congress 2020 is now open!

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association (AMSR) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 13th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International, with the main theme "Smart Regions – Opportunities for sustainable development in the digital era". The Congress will be hosted by the Moroccan Regional Science Association.

We invite formal paper presentations and Special Session Proposals (deadline of November 15, 2019). The abstract submission portal is now open. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at https://www.regionalscience.org/2020worldcongress

About the Focal Theme

The congress is open for the world-wide diverse audience of regional scientists including academics, policy makers and practitioners and aims to bring together the key elements of multidisciplinary regional science research and to provide a scientific platform for presenting and discussing research at the frontiers of the spatial sciences in a broad sense. The themes which will be addressed zoom in particular on the pressing challenges of meeting the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals, in both developed and developing economies. As a new challenge to regional science research is formed by the emerging digital technology and its implications for analysis, monitoring, evaluation and forecasting spatial dynamics at all levels, the theme chosen for the congress is ‘Smart Regions- Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Digital Era’. Therefore, the potential of spatial and temporal big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social media information, and of the new spatial maps emerging from digitization and robotization will be addressed by the congress as well, as these forces will have far-reaching impacts on human behaviour and interaction in space. Topics such as urban-rural development, migration, spatial and resources (al)location, border effects, urbanization, sustainable cities, mobility, land use, environmental quality, disaster management, energy transition, culture, poverty, segregation, spatial modelling are important issues covered in the 2020 RSAI World Congress.

Themes of specific interest are:

RS01 - Entrepreneurship

RS02 - Infrastructure, transportation and accessibility

RS03 - Knowledge and innovation

RS04 - Local finance

RS05 - Location theory and applications

RS06 - Methods in Regional Science and Urban Economics

RS07 - Migration and regional labor markets

RS08 - Real estate and housing

RS09 - Regional and urban policy

RS10 - Regional development

RS11 - Rural development

RS12 - Spatial implications of environmental change

RS13 - Spatial planning

RS14 - The spatial dimension of sustainable development

RS15 - Theoretical and empirical urban economics

RS16 - Tourism

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Marrakech in June 2020.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee

There are 2 x Economic Geography Lectureships based in CURDS and Geography in Newcastle University.

The post seeks to advance critical perspectives on urban and regional development. Themes of interest may include, but are not limited to: cities and city-regions; spatial inequalities and justice; demographic change and migration; finance and debt; energy and infrastructure; institutions, governance and policy.

More details are available at: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/geography/about/joinus/

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2019

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 to

“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”

Their research is helping us fight poverty

The research conducted by this year’s Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research.

Despite recent dramatic improvements, one of humanity’s most urgent issues is the reduction of global poverty, in  all its forms. More than 700 million people still subsist on extremely low incomes. Every year, around five million children under the age of five still die of diseases that could often have been prevented or cured with inexpen- sive treatments. Half of the world’s children still leave school without basic literacy and numeracy skills.

This year’s Laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty. In brief, it involves dividing this issue into smaller, more manageable, questions – for example, the most effective interventions for improving educational outcomes or child health. They have shown that these smaller, more precise, questions are often best answered via carefully designed experiments among the people who are most affected.

In the mid-1990s, Michael Kremer and his colleagues demonstrated how powerful this approach can be, using field experiments to test a range of interventions that could improve school results in western Kenya.

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, often with Michael Kremer, soon performed similar studies of other issues and in other countries. Their experimental research methods now entirely dominate development economics.

The Laureates’ research findings – and those of the researchers following in their footsteps – have dramati- cally improved our ability to fight poverty in practice. As a direct result of one of their studies, more than five million Indian children have benefitted from effective programmes of remedial tutoring in schools. Another example is the heavy subsidies for preventive healthcare that have been introduced in many countries.

These are just two examples of how this new research has already helped to alleviate global poverty. It also has great potential to further improve the lives of the worst-off people around the world.

__________________

Abhijit Banerjee, born 1961 in Mumbai, India. Ph.D. 1988 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Esther Duflo, born 1972 in Paris, France. Ph.D. 1999 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Michael Kremer, born 1964. Ph.D. 1992 from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2019/summary/

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Abstracts for RSAI Congress 2020 is now open!

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association (AMSR) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 13th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International, with the main theme "Smart Regions – Opportunities for sustainable development in the digital era". The Congress will be hosted by the Moroccan Regional Science Association.

We invite formal paper presentations (deadline of November 15, 2019. The abstract submission portal is now open. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at https://www.regionalscience.org/2020worldcongress

About the Focal Theme

The congress is open for the world-wide diverse audience of regional scientists including academics, policy makers and practitioners and aims to bring together the key elements of multidisciplinary regional science research and to provide a scientific platform for presenting and discussing research at the frontiers of the spatial sciences in a broad sense. The themes which will be addressed zoom in particular on the pressing challenges of meeting the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals, in both developed and developing economies. As a new challenge to regional science research is formed by the emerging digital technology and its implications for analysis, monitoring, evaluation and forecasting spatial dynamics at all levels, the theme chosen for the congress is ‘Smart Regions- Opportunities for Sustainable Development in the Digital Era’. Therefore, the potential of spatial and temporal big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, social media information, and of the new spatial maps emerging from digitization and robotization will be addressed by the congress as well, as these forces will have far-reaching impacts on human behaviour and interaction in space. Topics such as urban-rural development, migration, spatial and resources (al)location, border effects, urbanization, sustainable cities, mobility, land use, environmental quality, disaster management, energy transition, culture, poverty, segregation, spatial modelling are important issues covered in the 2020 RSAI World Congress.

We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Marrakech in June 2020.

With warmest regards,

The Organizing Committee

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to participate in the 19th International Scientific Conference „RETHINKING REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS”, which will be held on 28th November 2019 in Siauliai, Lithuania.

The special topic of the plenary session – “Circular economics for the region competitiveness”.

Registration deadline – November 8, 2019.

Registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoMH_zMkKo7ZcQuv-5Nzd5gqPmeTRdQKu3xu1nEjSg16mfBw/viewform

Conference fee - 30 EUR.

We kindly ask you to forward this information to the colleagues who might be interested in the conference.

Please find more information in the attached invitation and www.su.lt/rethinking-regional

Best regards,

Conference Organizers 

https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01573  

Tenured Faculty Position Geographic Information Science (GIScience) – Department of Geography

The University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography invites applications for the Jack and Laura Dangermond Endowed Chair in Geography. This will be a Tenured faculty position at the level of Associate or Full Professor in Geographic Information Science, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2020. The Department is looking for an individual with active research and teaching interests in Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The successful candidate will be broadly trained with interdisciplinary experience and a commitment to disciplines directly relevant to GIScience. We are particularly interested in applicants who have made and will continue to make significant contributions to either the modeling, representation, retrieval, integration, visualization, and/or analysis of spatial data.

Responsibilities of faculty members generally include teaching at undergraduate and/or graduate levels, recruitment, supervision, and mentorship of graduate students, participation in university service and professional activities, and the development of an actively funded research program of the highest quality. Only applicants with a PhD in an appropriate field at the time of application will be considered. Applicants with a record of research and professional activity commensurate with a tenured appointment will be given preference. A demonstrated record of excellence in research, and a record of (or potential for) outstanding teaching are desired. Successful candidates will have a record of collaborative research, and will be able to leverage synergies within the Department of Geography. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service as appropriate to the position.

Applications should be submitted electronically, and must include:

• Cover Letter
• Curriculum Vitae
• Statement of Research
• Statement of Teaching
• Statement of Contribution to Diversity (Optional)
• Applicants will need to provide contact information for 3 references

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values at UC Santa Barbara. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and staff who share our commitment to these values. The department encourages all applicants to submit a Statement of Contributions to Diversity addressing past and/or potential contributions to diversity through research, teaching, and service.

Applications received by December 16, 2019 will be given priority consideration, but the position will remain open until filled. To apply please visit: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF01573

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 1859-1860 | First Published: 13 October 2019

FULL ARTICLES

Asymmetric effects of monetary policy shocks across US states

Davide Furceri, Fabio Mazzola, Pietro Pizzuto

Pages: 1861-1891 | First Published: 08 June 2019

A ticket to ride: Education and migration from lagging areas

Guglielmo Barone, Antonello d’Alessandro, Guido de Blasio

Pages: 1893-1902 | First Published: 12 March 2019

Interaction between different forms of proximity in inter‐organizational scientific collaboration: The case of medical sciences research network in the Yangtze River Delta region

Zhan Cao, Ben Derudder, Zhenwei Peng

Pages: 1903-1924 | First Published: 28 February 2019

Measuring quality of government in EU regions across space and time

Nicholas Charron, Victor Lapuente, Paola Annoni

Pages: 1925-1953 | First Published: 28 February 2019

Aggregate effects and measuring regional dynamics

Ryan Greenaway‐McGrevy, Kyle Hood

Pages: 1955-1991 | First Published: 23 March 2019

Inside the regional innovation system black box: Evidence from French data

Hervé Ott, Patrick Rondé

Pages: 1993-2026 | First Published: 02 May 2019

A multiplier evaluation of primary factors supply–shocks in a regional economy

1. Alejandro Cardenete, M. Carmen Lima, Ferran Sancho

Pages: 2027-2045 | First Published: 01 April 2019

The influence of the cultural values independence and obedience on regional incomes: Econometric evidence

Christina Greßer, David Stadelmann

Pages: 2047-2073 | First Published: 28 March 2019

Comparing the quality of life of cities that gained and lost population: An assessment with DEA and the Malmquist index

Carla Alexandra Filipe Amado, Ana Paula Barreira, Sérgio Pereira Santos, Maria Helena Guimarães

Pages: 2075-2097 | First Published: 22 May 2019

Friendly neighbours! The role of community‐level drivers in the territorial distribution of same‐sex couples in Italy

Francesco Pagliacci

Pages: 2099-2114 | First Published: 14 May 2019

Keeping up appearances: Spatial spillovers and housing renovations

Nicholas B. Irwin

Pages: 2115-2133 | First Published: 18 May 2019

Broadband's relationship to rural housing values

Steven Deller, Brian Whitacre

Pages: 2135-2156 | First Published: 23 May 2019

Topographic heterogeneity, rural labour transfer and cultivated land use: An empirical study of plain and low‐hill areas in China

Xiang Luo, Zuo Zhang, Xinhai Lu, Lu Zhang

Pages: 2157-2178 | First Published: 01 April 2019

Is planning delay really a constraint in the provision of housing? Some evidence from Israel

Ziv Rubin, Daniel Felsenstein

Pages: 2179-2200 | First Published: 19 March 2019

RESEARCH NOTES & COMMENTS

Preference matching, income, and population distribution in urban and adjacent rural regions

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Hamid Beladi

Pages: 2201-2208 | First Published: 27 February 2019

Dear colleague:

We have just published a new issue of the journal Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research (Issue Nº 43). It is now available only in on line version.

About Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research:

The founding aim of Investigaciones Regionales–Journal of Regional Research was to create a prestigious journal through which to disseminate quality research carried out in the broad academic and professional field of regional, urban and territorial studies. The review process of the papers submitted to the Journal follows international standards.

Investigaciones Regionales-Journal of Regional Research is ranked as Q2 by Scimago JRC (Scopus), in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and indexed in other scientific and academic international databases (Emerging Source Citation Index OF Clarivate Analytics, EBSCO, ProQuest, EconLit, RePec, DOAJ, Redalyc, Latindex, Fuente Académica,…).

The Journal has a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming submissions from fields such as Economics, Geography, Sociology, Land Planning and Political Science, whose scientific focus, originality and added value contribute to the dissemination of new ideas and methodological approaches, strengthening and improving the quality of the publication, via its This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The contents of this issue are:

Editorial

          Editorial

Vicente Royuela

European Regional Policy

          'Co-Funded by the EU' vs 'From the American people': Refreshing the communication on EU Cohesion Policy

Francesco Molica, Matteo Salvai

Articles

          Creative industries and firm creation: disentangling causal effects through historical cultural associations

Eva Coll- Martínez

          Performance ofbusiness incubators and accelerators according to che regional entrepreneurship ecosystem in Spain

1. Teresa Fernández Fernández,]uan Luis Santos, Francisco José Blanco Jiménez

          Una propuesta metodológica para el análisis gráfico de series temporales regionales: una aplicación a las tasas de paro provinciales en España

Magdalena Ferrán Aranaz, Lorenzo Escot

          La generación real y potencial de empleo de la ley de dependencia: un análisis regional

Diana Fernández Méndez, Melchor Fernández Fernández, Alberto Meixide Vecino

Los territorios de la exclusión social en Argentina. Evidencia empírica sobre las décadas 1990-2010

María Celeste Gómez, Liliana E. Pereyra

          Crisis, Employment and lnequality in Latin America: A Nacional and Regional Analysis between Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador

Luis Quintana, Carlos Salas, Ronny Correa-Quezada

Transporte aéreo y turismo: un análisis para el mediterráneo español

Luisa Alamá-Sabater, Andres Artal-Tur, Diego López Olivares

Design of an indicator of confidence in the public authorities based on fuzzy logic

Juan Carlos Martín, Concepción Román, Christian Stalin Viñán

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ISSN: 1695-7253

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Position Summary

The School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona (geography.arizona.edu) seeks a tenure-eligible Assistant Professor in data science, spatial analysis, statistics and quantitative methods. The ideal candidate will advance the School’s research on pressing social, political, economic, and environmental issues. Successful applicants will have an active research program in data science and spatial analysis of complex data sets. We particularly seek individuals whose scholarship can contribute to the School’s program in Urban and Regional Development, which includes the study of cities and their environs. The candidate selected will enhance the School’s research and teaching capacities across a diverse range of topics and contribute to the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics and Data Science. The position will provide opportunities to connect with research communities and resources across campus, including the Cyberinfrastructure for Data Management and Analysis Center (http://www.cyverse.org).

Duties & Responsibilities 

The Assistant Professor will teach a mix of undergraduate and graduate courses in quantitative methods and in topical areas to support our programs in Urban and Regional Development and Geographic Information Systems and Technology. Instructional duties may involve a mix of in-person and online offerings. The appointee will also participate in the activities of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics. The distribution of effort will normally be 40% Research, 40% Teaching, and 20% Service.

Minimum Qualifications 

We seek a scholar with a strong research record and a promising agenda for future work. A Ph.D. in Geography or a related field is required by the time of appointment. Applicants in related fields should demonstrate that their research is sufficiently geographical to fit within a multi-faceted Geography department.

Preferred Qualifications 

Experience teaching at the collegiate level

For more information contact the search committee chair: Tom Evans This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To apply please see:  https://uacareers.com/postings/42118