The GATE (Economic Analysis and Theory Research Group) is offering a 12 months postdoc position in Saint-Etienne.

Tasks:

The postdoc researcher will integrate the GATE research team located at Saint-Etienne. She/he will take part in an ongoing research project aiming at identifying the effects of interjurisdictional agreements on the supply of commercial/industrial land and its spatial distribution among jurisdictions. A focus will be put on the impact of the interjurisdictional governance, the role of political parties and interjurisdictional competition.

Profile:

Applicants are expected to have fulfilled a Ph.D. in Regional and Urban Economics or Applied Microeconomics. Knowledge of microeconometrics of panel data and econometric methods for evaluation of public policies will be appreciated but not required.

Deadlines:

Applicants are expected to send a curriculum and 2 names of academic references by Monday June 1, 2015. Skype or telephone interviews with short-listed applicants will be held between June 8 and June 12, 2015.

Conditions:

Candidates should hold a PhD in economics by the start of the fellowship contract. Working language can be either English or French.

Duration: one year

Starting date: September-October 2015

Contacts for application:

Stéphane Riou (Full Prof.)

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Phone: +33 (0)4  77 42 19 56

https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article441

Julien Salanié (Assistant Prof.)

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Phone: +33 (0)4

https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article755

Join us in Portland, Oregon for the 62nd North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and hosted by the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA).  The conference will be held at the Portland Hilton Hotel, November 11th – 14th, 2015.  You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference and workshops at the NARSC Website at:

http://www.narsc.org/

Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference.  To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area. If you attended a NARSC conference over the past couple of years or are a member of a North American regional science organization, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password.  Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

Once logged, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference, and check the status of your registration.  You will be able come to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password.  In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login.

Individual papers, posters, and sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the Website between now and July 1, 2015. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. We plan to have host poster sessions, and pre-conference workshops. The latter will be held on November 11th. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details. More information about the workshops will be forthcoming.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics inclusive within the diverse realm of regional science.  We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use.  We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography.  The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world.  

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Portland Hilton Hotel at a rate of $189 per night (plus tax).  The Hilton is extending the conference rate for those who wish to spend extra time in Portland, subject to availability.

If you have questions, here is contact information:

Local arrangements:

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

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

Program Chair:
Rachel Franklin:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Overall Arrangements
Neil Reid: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We look forward to seeing you in Portland

The 10th International Conference of the Romanian Regional Science Association

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND “EUROPE 2020”

Suceava, MAY 8 – 9, 2015

Main topics:

Emerging challenges for regional policy

Public finances, governance and local development

Migration effects on regional development

Climate change and spatial environmental sustainability

Innovation, knowledge economy and regional labour market networks

Clusters, entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness

Tourism, cultural industries and territorial development

Partnership for cross-border cooperation

Agriculture and rural development

The abstract must not exceed 400 words (including keywords and JEL Classification). It should be sent by email at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., specifying in the email’s subject ARSR 2015.

The full paper will be sent by email to the Conference address, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The papers will be included in the symposium CD-ROM collection of papers. ROMANIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION “ŞTEFAN CEL MARE” UNIVERSITY of SUCEAVA

Requirements: English language, max. 10 pages, A4 size, Word (min. ’97), Times New Roman, 12 pt font, single spacing, margins: top-bottom: 2.5 cm, left-right: 3 cm, alignment: justified. Equations must be written with the equation editor. Scanned figures and graphs are not accepted.

Maximum two papers per participant are accepted.

Further details please go to the website of the Romanian Section -www.rrsa.ro

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

REGION, the open access journal published by ERSA (http://region.ersa.org), is publishing a special issue on entrepreneurship and regional development.

Description: This special issue explores topics related to entrepreneurship and regional development considering entrepreneurial cases, public policies, and entrepreneurial projects developed at a regional level. Studies about entrepreneurship and regional development that explore their economic dimensions are underdeveloped. They are, however, crucial to a better understanding of the contexts, policies, and key variables that promote regional competitiveness, income, and employment. This special issue follows a multidisciplinary approach and welcomes contributions rooted in different fields including economics, geography, management, sociology, and psychology as long as the focus is on regional/spatial aspects of entrepreneurship and development.

Overall Objectives and Goals: The aim of this special issue is to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to advance the knowledge and practice of all facets of entrepreneurship and regional development. This kind of studies can be interesting to academics but also to students and entrepreneurs. The special issue aims to include high quality case studies, quantitative research, and theoretical studies to improve knowledge in these fields.

Topics: Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Public policies to promote entrepreneurship
2. Entrepreneurship and social innovation
3. Higher education, knowledge transfer and business creation
4. Entrepreneurship, innovation and creation of regional value
5. Entrepreneurship and internationalization

Intended Audience:
Academics
Students (Master and PhD)
Entrepreneurs
Policy makers

Submission
Abstract submission must be made before the 30th of May 2015 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Editor

Luísa Carvalho (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) Open University, Lisbon, Portugal

Important dates

Submission abstract: May 30, 2015

Notification due June 15, 2015

Final version: September 20, 2015

The 2015 meeting will be held in Bengaluru, India on June 27-30, 2015. Our host school will be Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB).

All information at http://aib.msu.edu/events/2015/ and Detailed Conference Program at http://aib.msu.edu/events/2015/DraftProgram-0501.html

Dear Member,

The Local Organizing Committee cordially invites you to the XXIV Pacific Regional Science Conference (PRSCO) and VII Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society of Regional Studies (SOCHER). This event will take place from the 5th to the 8th of August of 2015 and will gather Regional-Science researchers from different places around the globe. We hope that you become part of the discussion and scientific dissemination of our meeting. Studies related to regional and urban economics, local development, decentralization, inter-regional disparities, special econometrics, methods and models in Regional Sciences, among others, will be presented.

The event will take place at the Adolfo Ibáñez University - Viña del Mar campus, Valparaíso, Chile. If you want to present your work in the programmed sessions, the deadline for submitting papers is May 30th. In addition, the SOCHER Committee invites you to submit your work to the Andrew "Andy" Isserman prize. The goal of this prize is to recognize creativity in the pursuit of answers to questions of interest for Regional Science, treated with theoretical and quantitative rigor in the process of investigation. We invite the candidates to present their proposals, declaring whether or not they are applying to the Andrew Isserman Prize. The deadline is June 12th.

On August 5th there will be a workshop on spatial econometrics. More information will be available soon.

Information regarding registration fees can be found in the following table. To validate the registration please follow the instructions you will find in the following website: www.socherchile.cl (http://socherchile.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d10ee979d7d9127ffc5d375af&id=84f0e416ce&e=4cc6054920) . International attendees have to register through www.narsc.org (http://socherchile.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d10ee979d7d9127ffc5d375af&id=d95e929d77&e=4cc6054920) . Participants paying fees in Chilean pesos please send the receipt of the transaction to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) .

Registration fees (CLP*)        RSAI members** Non members
Before July 30th Standard fee   $ 120.000      $150.000
Reduced fee*** $ 40.000       $70.000
After August 1st Standard fee   $150.000       $180.000
Reduced fee*** $70.000        $100.000

Registration fees (USD)         RSAI members** Non members
Before July 30th Standard fee   $ 250          $ 300
Reduced fee*** $ 100          $ 150
After August 1st Standard fee   $ 300          $ 350
Reduced fee*** $ 150          $ 200
* CLP: Chilean Pesos
** RSAI Member fees are applicable to members of RSAI (ERSA,PRSCO, RSAmericas, SOCHER).
*** Reduced fees are applicable to undergraduate and postgraduate students

The registration fees include:
1. Access to all the sessions of the conference.
2. Conference material (including books with abstracts, list of participants, credentials, information of WiFi connexion, etc).
3. Lunches, coffee breaks, and visit to a vineyard.
4. Welcome reception and gala dinner.

All the information about the program, the submission of papers, registration procedures, and access to reduced fees in hotels of Viña del Mar can be found at www.socherchile.cl (http://socherchile.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d10ee979d7d9127ffc5d375af&id=9a3428e80a&e=4cc6054920) .

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the local Organizing Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) ; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) ; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) ).

Best regards and looking forward to your participation in this event,

The Local Organizing Committee

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The 24th ECSAS (European Conference on South Asian Studies) will take place at the University of Warsaw (Poland) from 27 to 30 July 2016.

CALL FOR PANELS

The call for panels is now open and will close on 15 May 2015.
If you would like to convene a panel at this conference, please submit your proposal via the online form.
How to proceed?
All participants at the 24th ECSAS (panel convenors, paper presenters and chairs/discussants) must be members of EASAS through 2015 & 2016 or 2016 & 2017. If you wish to convene a panel and are not yet a member, please make sure to become a member before submitting your proposal. Please note that all convenors must be EASAS members a the time of submission. Paper presenters who are not yet members may also join EASAS after the panel proposals have been selected. Non-members cannot attend the conference. It is easy to join EASAS here.
Proposals should consist of
1. panel title
2. name of panel convenor or convenors
3. short panel abstract of fewer than 300 characters
4. long panel abstract of fewer than 250 words, preferably including names of tentative panellists.
EASAS appreciates a well-balanced composition of convenors and panellists within a panel (by gender, with an international mix of participants, and senior and junior scholars) but the main criterion will be the high academic quality of your panel. One convenor per panel must be based in a European institution. The conference organizers will also seek to ensure that the wide range of disciplines usually represented at the conference finds adequate coverage, both separately and in interdisciplinary panels.
ECSAS requires all accepted panels to be open to paper proposals through the website: proposed panels should not be ‘closed’ to further papers ab initio. We encourage young researchers to contact panel convenors to be considered for inclusion in their panel; young researchers are also encouraged to propose panels themselves. No panel may run for more than 4 sessions of 90 minutes.
Participants cannot submit more than one presentation during the 24th ECSAS. Beyond that, each participant may chair one panel; or be discussant in one panel.
We look forward to seeing you in Warsaw in 2016!
If you have any queries, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Please note that the conference website and panel proposal form will be ready by the end of March.
http://www.easas.eu/european-conferences-south-asian-studies 

We have Extended the Deadline till 15th May!

CITTA - the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment – is organizing its 8^th Annual Conference together with the AESOP Thematic Group on Public Spaces & Urban Cultures, on the general theme - Becoming Local: Generative Places, Smart Approaches, Happy People, that will take place at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Oporto / Portugal, on the 25^th of September 2015.

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract till the 15^th May  2015 on the following topics:

Topic 1) Physical dimension / Real and virtual boundaries
Topic 2) Social dimension / (Un)successful mediation
Topic 3) Cultural dimension / Local identities and meanings

Confirmed keynote-speakers: Ali Madanipour (University of Newcastle, UK), Carlos Fortuna (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Sako Musterd (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).

More information about the theme, programme, registration and venue can be found on CITTA's conference website http://citta-conference.fe.up.pt

Video about the city of Porto (https://vimeo.com/86438582)

Registrations must be made through our website, on one of the options:
Option 1 - register for two days event, 24th - 25th September - AESOP Thematic Group (fieldtrip + workshop + CITTA Conference)
Option 2 - register for one day event, 25th September - CITTA Conference

Yours sincerely,

Sara Santos Cruz & Fernando Brandão Alves  (Conference Chairs)
Paulo Pinho (Director of CITTA)

Secretariat: Cláudia Correia
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William Louis Garrison, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and former director of Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies, died on Feb. 1, 2015 in Lafayette, CA. He was 90.

Garrison joined the CEE faculty as a Professor in 1973. That same year he was appointed director of the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering (ITTE) (the predecessor of the Institute of Transportation Studies), a position he held for seven years. He retired from Berkeley in 1991. Although his work at Berkeley was focused on how innovation and technological change occurs in the field of transportation, he was well known earlier in his career for leading the so-called “quantitative revolution” in geography.

“Bill moved from geography to transportation in the 1970s. He was particularly interested in innovation and how technological change occurs,” said David Levinson, a former student of Garrison’s who now serves on the faculty of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota. “He strongly believed that we should be seeking new development pathways, rather than remaining stuck perfecting existing systems—what he called the 'polished present'."

Another former student, Barry Wellar, commented in 2007 at the 2007 Anderson Distinguished Lecture in Applied Geography that Garrison “had a way of looking at things that were way outside the box years before that notion was popularized, and even his so-called ‘easy reads’ contained nuances about relationships and processes that would be missed by the casual reader.”

Garrison was born in 1924 and raised in Tennessee. Following his service in World War II during which he did meteorological work for the US Army, he received his PhD in Geography from Northwestern University in 1950. A few years later, as a young faculty member at the University of Washington, he led the way to revitalizing the field of geography through the use of greater scientific thinking and methods. That led to an increased use of computerized statistical techniques such as multivariate analysis in geographical research. Garrison and his students used such historic computing systems as the IBM 604 and IBM 650. Many of those students would later go on to revolutionize geographic science and geographic information systems.

In recent years, the biennial William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography was created to recognize Garrison’s outstanding research and educational contributions. The award is intended to arouse a more general and deeper understanding of the important role that advanced computation can play in resolving the complex problems of space–time analysis that are at the core of geographic science.

In addition to the University of Washington, Garrison taught at Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Illinois, University of Pittsburgh, before he arrived at UC Berkeley in 1973 as Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, and ITTE Director. By then his interests had shifted to transportation. He made invaluable contributions to the Transportation Engineering Program in the department, expanding and strengthening the planning and policy elements of the curriculum. Likewise, when he took at the helm at ITTE he set out to expand and broaden the scope beyond transportation and traffic engineering.

"Bill steered the institute into a broad based center for the study of transportation. He expanded its agenda and broadened the community of faculty affiliates to encompass many departments on the campus including City and Regional Planning, Economics, Geography, Public Policy and Sociology," said Adib Kanafani, CEE Professor of the Graduate School. Kanafani succeeded Garrison as ITS Director in 1983. "Bill's leadership was reflected in the institute's name change as ITTE became the “Institute of Transportation Studies.”

Garrison served on numerous national committees, and served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board in 1973. In the late 1980s he spent time in Austria examining growth trajectories of various transportation technologies. Much of that work is what forms the nucleus of The Transportation Experience first published by Oxford University Press in 2006, then revised and published in a second edition in 2014. His co-author was David Levinson. “He was one of the few people to take a macro-view of transportation and who tried to understand the long-term dynamics of systems,” said Levinson.

In 2007, Garrison gave the Anderson Distinguished lecture in Applied Geography at the Association of American Geographers in Washington, DC. In his address, he said:

“About fifty years ago I began to teach a course on transportation geography, and at about that same time I began working with others on highway improvement and financing in Washington State and nationwide telephone communications as a civil defense matter. In subsequent decades I have worked to understand transportation systems of many types as well as engineered systems such as sanitary systems. This work raised many questions of a ‘why do systems and actors do what they do’ sort. To comment on those questions I will refer to constraints formed by networks and institutional structures. Systems are birthed when actors combine old or new building blocks and produce services aligned with markets. Early on, there is flexibility as the marriage of systems and markets is forged.

The early decades of the railroads provide a sweeping example. Created by mixing and matching building blocks from tramways, steam engines, canal and toll road construction techniques and pricing protocols and management and financing techniques from military, church and industry they molded themselves like clay. Discovery was a key theme—discovering a workable mix of hard and soft technologies and, equally important, discovering markets. Discovery extended to finding improvements in technologies to respond to social innovations, such as those asking for expanded passenger transportation. Railroads adjusted themselves to circumstances of market density, raw materials for fuel and construction, and styles of national governance. They were flexible.

The flexible period ran from about 1830 to 1860. Afterwards, deployment and growth ruled, and network and organizational inflexibilities began to exert themselves, along with those imposed by those striving to control development using standards, regulations, and other tools. Flexibility became more and more restrained…

I recognize that our legacy infrastructure systems have enormous value. They serve as inputs for all that we do, and shape social and economic structures. They form a record of learning and social and economic actions and achievements. But at the same time, their inflexibilities are costly now and place serious limits on options for the future.”

William Louis Garrison is survived by his wife Marcia Garrison and their four children, Deborah Churich, James Garrison, Jane Garrison Grimaldi, and John Garrison; his three children, Sara Garrison, Ann Darrin, and Helen Saxenian from his first wife Mary Margaret Garrison (who predeceased him); 16 grandchildren, and one great grandchild.

Call for abstracts

Dear colleagues:

We would like to remind you that 15 May is the deadline for sending your abstracts to the XLI International Conference on Regional Science. This event will take place at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili between 18 and the 20 November 2015.

The lemma of this conference will be Innovation and Geographical Spillovers: New Approaches and Evidence. Furthermore, as you may have seen on the conference website, the number of subject areas has increased (17), as have the special sessions (6), so that everyone interested in territorial-based issues will be catered for, be they economists, geographers or urban planners. Your participation is essential!

We are currently designing an attractive conference at academic level, however are able to provide the information on contents:

- Workshop: “Spatial Econometrics with the R Package”, presented by Coro Chasco (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Julie Le Gallo (Université de Franche-Comté). Free course.

- David B. Audretsch will be presenting “Innovation Spillovers: a Strategy for the Crisis”, Indiana University

- David B. Bailey will be speaking on “Drivers of Change in the Global Auto Industry”, Aston Business School.

With respect to leisure activities, we are also planning different events, which we will be announcing at a later date.

Therefore remind that 15 May is the deadline for sending your abstracts. THE COUNTDOWN HAS ALREADY BEGUN.

We look forward to seeing you at Reus,

The Organizing Committee

English version of the Meeting website is already available: http://www.reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/Home-82-home