Call for Papers

Regional Productivity Workshop

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Sede Región Centro

Aguascalientes, AGS, Mexico, October 16-17, 2015

The Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) invites research paper submissions for the “Regional Productivity Workshop”.

The deadline for submissions is August 15th, 2015.

The workshop will be held on October 16-17, 2015, at the CIDE Aguascalientes.

This workshop seeks to gather a group of researchers, teachers, students and practitioners of regional policy working in regional economy productivity topics to discuss research done in the field and to build a network of Latin American economics interested in regional productivity.

Scholarly articles with a focus on policy issues in Latin America, region are especially encourage, but any work with focus on productivity is welcome . Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to policy implications, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.
Structure of the sessions:

The Workshop includes two invited speakers who will open the session of each day and one invited talk during the Young Researchers Session.

Presenters of selected papers will have30 minutes to discuss their work and take questions. Presentations are intended to identify pressing public policy issues and emerging research themes in regional economic productivity.

At the Young Researchers Session (YRS) (October 16th) new entrants in the field will have their papers discussed by senior colleagues. The papers in the YRS will be assigned extra time (45 minutes including discussion). PhD students or recent PhD holding their degree for at most 3 years may qualify as Young Researchers. Full Papers should be submitted via the conference’s website, choosing the Young Researchers’ option.
The workshop will also provide networking and professional development opportunities for faculty and graduate students who are interested in pursuing research in Latin America´s regional economic issues.

Keynote Speakers:

In addition to selected paper presentations there will be three keynote speeches by:

Antonio Álvarez Pinilla Universidad de Oviedo
Geoffrey J.D. Hewings University of Illinois
Mark Partridge Ohio State University

Costs:
There is no fee, but registration to the workshop is required by September 10, 2015.

CIDE will offer a limited number of full grants to cover travel expenses. Those interested in a full grant should mention it when sending the paper and a current CV.

Language:
All Workshop sessions will be held in English.

Submissions:

Prospective participants should submit a full version of the paper in English NLT August 15th, 2015 to:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Authors will be notified of the final decision by August 31st, 2015.

Please feel free to make any inquiries about the event at the above email address or visit our website

http://regionalproductivityworkshop.yolasite.com/

Organizing Committee:
Rafael Garduño CIDE-RC
Pedro Hancevic CIDE-RC
Héctor Núñez CIDE-RC

The International Geographical Union Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces extends a call for papers for its mini-conference on "Local and Regional Development in Emerging Economic Geographies". The conference will be held in Ankara, Turkey, October 22-24. The full call for papers can be found here:

http://www.uni-vechta.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ISPA/IGU/PDFs/IGU_DES_Ankara_Conference_2015_Call_for_Papers-1.pdf

AEIT Annual Conference 2015
A Sustainable Development in the Mediterranean Area

In collaboration with AEIT Sezione di Napoli, AEIT Sezione di Benevento, IEEE Italy Section
Naples, Italy - October 14-16, 2015

DEADLINE FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS JULY 24, 2015

OVERVIEW
AEIT, association promoting activities which can contribute to the development and spread of culture and technology in areas of increasing importance, such as electrotechnical engineering, electronics, informatics, automation, telecommunications, organizes a conference to seek opportunities that will be determined by the socio-economic policies and technical issues relating to the Mediterranean countries.
In this area the population, unevenly located in developed countries and continuously growing, will not have access to services and energy to match their expectations and their needs. The difficulties raised by the territorial energy balances will be increasingly evident: balances in which the different forms of energy will have size and use dependent on costs, security, development, technology. Territory which will tend to evolve more and more different than in the past and cities that will change to become places of consumption of energy, services, trade. In fact, in Europe, as elsewhere in the world, people will concentrate in "mega-cities" in need to create not only relations within them, but also strong and secure connections with the outside.
In this context, the smart-cities will inevitably lead to the prerequisites for large investments in telecommunications and network infrastructure not only in Europe but also in Africa, where it will also determine the convenience of producing "sustainable energy" in a planned and coordinated way with the same Europe. It will be inevitable the implementation of a policy in the Mediterranean able to create a more balanced socio-economic development and a growth of electrical, electronics, informatics, automation, telecommunications technologies.
That's why AEIT, in line with the cultural objectives that pursues, intends to address topics usually of its interest and expertise, but in the prospect of a new policy in the Mediterranean Area.
The conference, in addition to the issues of economic and social interest treated by authoritative representatives of institutions and companies, will also carry out the traditional technical sessions (oral and poster) and an "Exhibition" for companies.

The conference will be held simultaneously with the 29th edition of the event FUTURO REMOTO, which will have the theme "The Borders" and will be held in Piazza Plebiscito.
Round tables, speeches and memories will take advantage of the contributions of Institutions, Enterprises and Professional Associations and will be parted into the following thematic areas:
The Mediterranean
The European Supergrid
The Metropolitan City and the Mega City
The Research in the European Perspective

TOPICS
Energy Efficiency
Transportation, Distribution, Utilization of Energy
Renewable Energy Sources
Energy Storage
Utilities
Smart Grids
Urban and Extra-Urban Transports
ICT
Telecommunications
Broadband
Photonics
Automation
Bioengineering
Materials
Forensic Aspects
Electronics, Microelectronics and Components
Nanotechnologies
Motors and Electric Drives
Electrical Generators
Electromagnetics and Electromagnetic Compatibility
Education and Scientific and Technical Communication
Dependability and Safety

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on the indicated topics.
Contributions can also be written in Italian or English language.
Authors shall submit an EXTENDED ABSTRACT (3 pages-twocolumn format) by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., using the template no later than
July, 24th 2015
Authors will be notified of their contribution acceptance by
September, 1st 2015
FULL PAPER (6 pages - two-column format - using the template) shall be submitted by
September, 21st 2015
All papers will be reviewed.
All papers written in English language are going to be considered for publication in IEEE Xplore®. Papers have to be compliant with the following criteria:
Authors should only submit original work that has neither appeared elsewhere for publication, nor which is under review for another publication or conference.
The contributions shall be written in ENGLISH.
The contributions shall be 6 pages in A4 format (including abstract, tables, figures and references).
The contributions shall be prepared in electronic format using the template
A copyright and consent form, properly filled and signed, must be submitted

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Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Please find attached the call for papers for the next NECTAR Cluster 4 meeting on: "Travel, migration, housing and labour markets in a context of crisis. Lessons for the future". This meeting will be held in Toledo (Spain) during the 6-7 October 2016.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: February, 15, 2016.

Kind regards

Ana Condeço-Melhorado​

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are very pleased to invite you to Dijon (France) to participate to the 8th edition of the Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honor of Professor Jean Paelinck. The workshop will be held in October 23-24, 2015.
The conference aims to provide a forum for debate between young and consolidated researchers and it is open to both theoretical and applied papers, which deal explicitly with questions of spatial statistics and econometrics. It will be of special interest those contributions that within the scope of “Specification searches in spatial econometrics: theory and empirical issues”. We especially encourage submission by junior researchers.

Keynote Speakers:

Raymond Florax (Purdue University)

Daniel Griffith (University of Texas at Dallas)

Wilfried Koch (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Deadlines:

Abstracts submission deadline: July 20, 2015
Full paper submission deadline: September 4, 2015
Notification of acceptance of papers: September 20, 2015

You are invited to submit your paper or abstract to the following email address: 

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please find enclosed the call for papers. More information concerning the workshop is available at:
http://metodos.upct.es/8JP/

We are looking forward to meeting you in Dijon.

--

Rachel Guillain

The UIA cordially invites you to its

3rd UIA Associations Round Table Asia-Pacific

on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 September

in Bangkok at the Centara Grand at CentralWorld.

The UIA Round Table is an opportunity to learn through networking and through practice. Meet decision-makers and staff members from other international associations and share experience and knowledge to help you run your organization better.

Participants come from all over, and from incredibly diverse associations. And, with all our diversity, we have so much in common: questions of management and administration, policies and regulations, values and vision and pragmatism.

This year’s programme includes presentations and workshops on governance, communication strategies, working with volunteers in the field and at management levels, and public relations, with speakers from the United Nations office and from non-governmental associations. For details, please see

http://www.uia.org/roundtable/asia-pacific-2015

The registration fee for association representatives is 2,500 THB. Thanks to the support of our partners at Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau, we are able to offer a high-level educational programme for a low fee. All other elements of the programme are complimentary. Delegates are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements and expenses.

To register for the Round Table, please go to roundtable.uia.org and log in: 

your username is D1288 and your password is LBIKVUTG.

Two delegates can register with this username and password. If you would like to send more delegates, please contact us.

We thank our partners and sponsors for making the event possible and affordable for all associations. They will be present, should you want to talk to them, but there are no sales presentations in the programme: this is an event for learning and networking.

For over 100 years the UIA has been working to promote and facilitate the work of international associations. We look forward to welcoming you at our Round Tables this year.

Cordially,

Nancy Carfrae

Coordinator, UIA Associations Round Table

RSAI has the great pleasure to announce that the jury consisting of Antoine Bailly, Masahisa Fujita, Roberta Capello and Erik Verhoef  chose the article "The sources of the urban wage premium by worker skills: Spatial sorting or agglomeration economies?" by Martin Andersson, Johan Klaesson and Johan P Larsson published in Volume 94, Issue 4, November 2014, Pages: 727-747 as the winner of the Martin Beckmann Prize as the best paper published in Papers in Regional Science in 2014.

Motivation:

The paper deals with the estimate of the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage premium for workers with different sets of skills. The paper is an innovative piece of work in the complex field of identifying the sources of differences in wages among cities. It provides empirical evidence on which type of skills are rewarded by density, and bear on the broader question of the contexts in which agglomeration is important. Based on the originality of the methodology used, and the important results achieved, the jury concluded that the paper was the best published one in 2014.

Many congratulations to Martin Andersson, Johan Klaesson and Johan P Larsson!

Call for papers
RSAI/ERSA
2015 BARCELONA WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS
Spatial Perspectives of Human Capital
Barcelona, November 26th-27th 2015
Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona

AQR-IREA is pleased to announce the RSAI/ERSA 2015 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics, to be held in Barcelona on November 26th-27th 2015. The workshop will be focused on Spatial Perspectives of Human Capital. Its aim is to bring together researchers in urban and regional economics who are working in topics where the broad concept of human capital plays a fundamental role. We are especially interested in original and innovative research papers that focus on the interconnections between space and human capital. Although the Workshop will focus on empirical papers, theoretical studies are also welcome. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes neighbourhood effects in human capital formation; spatial spillovers of human capital; local labour market and human capital accumulation; regional heterogeneity in returns to schooling and skills; regional disparities in schooling performance; the spatial distribution of human capital.

Keynote speaker: Stephen Gibbons (Department of Geography and Environment, SERC and CEP, LSE)

Audience: We will accommodate around 10-12 papers, to be presented in plenary sessions that will complement the keynote speaker’s presentation. Thanks to the financial support of the RSAI’s “Nurturing New Talent Initiative”, 4-6 slots will be reserved to talented young researchers* (primarily PhD students) who will have the opportunity to present and discuss their works with senior researchers in the field.

Submission: Papers should be sent in pdf format to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before September 13th 2015. Extended abstracts or incomplete drafts will also be considered, but full papers will be favoured. *Doctoral students or recent PhDs (thesis defence within 2015) must send a certificate that proves their status.

Travel and accommodation costs for presenters of accepted papers will be covered by the organisers.

Deadline for papers submission: September 13th 2015
Notification of acceptance: September 27th 2015
Preliminary programme: October 11th 2015
Final programme: November 15th 2015

Organising Committee
Antonio Di Paolo (coordinator), Enrique López-Bazo, Alessia Matano and Raül Ramos.

Scientific Committee
Antonio Di Paolo, Massimiliano Bratti, Oriol Escardíbul, Steve Gibbons, José Luis Roig, Montserrat Vilalta-Bufí and Felix Weinhardt.

Further information at http://www.ub.edu/aqr/workshop/2015/ or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Stan Czamanski Prize

The Stan Czamanski Prize is awarded by the Regional Science Association International in memory of Professor Stan Czamanski, an early recipient of a Ph.D. in regional science (1963), a member of the University of Pennsylvania regional science faculty (1963-1966), a member of the regional science faculty of Cornell University (1966-1988), and a past-president of the Regional Science Association (1975-1976).

1. The annual prize is awarded to author of the best Ph.D. dissertation proposal judged to exemplify the philosophy and approach of Professor Czamanski, as described below.
2. The US$1,000 prize is awarded to the student and a plaque to the student’s advisor.
3. The selection will be made by a panel of three persons: a senior and long-standing member of the regional science community, a representative of the field of Regional Science at Cornell and a member of the RSAI Council. 
4. Students writing dissertations on problems in regional science from around the world are invited to enter the competition, in the spirit of Stan’s all-embracing philosophy.
5. The award is presented at the North American Regional Science Meetings.

Rules of the competition

Applications are to be submitted by June 30 of each year. To be eligible, the dissertation proposal must have been defended and approved during the past 12 months.

Each applicant will submit the following:

1. A statement in six pages or less that clearly sets out the research question(s) and issues to be addressed, approach to be used, and product expected from the dissertation research. The six-page limit is exclusive of references, tables and figures. This text and references should be in 12 point or larger font and single-spaced. In addition, a summary (maximum one page) describing the intellectual merit of the proposed research and why the proposed approach may be regarded as implementing Professor Czamanski’s philosophy and approach, as described below.
2. A curriculum vita of no more than two pages.
3. Copies of the candidate’s transcripts for all graduate study. Unofficial copies are acceptable.
4. A separate, confidential letter from the dissertation supervisor assessing the quality and significance of the proposed dissertation research.

Philosophy and Research Approach of Professor Stan Czamanski

In his Introduction to Regional Science (Prentice-Hall, 1975, p. 2), Walter Isard wrote:

“In brief, regional science as a discipline concerns the careful and patient study of social problems with regional or spatial dimensions, employing diverse combinations of analytical and empirical research.”

Professor Czamanski’s research exemplified the analysis of social and economic problems with regional and spatial dimensions. In doing so, he chose judiciously the right combination of analytical and empirical research methods from his tool box to address the specific issue at hand.

Dissertation proposals submitted for the Stan Czamanski Prize will be judged with regard to how the student proposes to bring an appropriate combination of analytical and empirical methods to bear on a social and economic problem with spatial or regional dimensions, and how this combination of methods is expected to deliver greater insights into the problem in question.