ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 461-462 | First Published: 18 June 2023

EDITORIAL

Editorial note

Pages: 463 | First Published: 18 June 2023

FULL ARTICLES

Open Access

Cultural heritage sites, tourism and regional economic resilience

Vinko Muštra, Blanka Škrabić Perić, Smiljana Pivčević

Pages: 465-482 | First Published: 12 April 2023

Open Access

Border Effects on firm's productivity: The role of peripherality and territorial capital

Federico Fantechi, Ugo Fratesi

Pages: 483-506 | First Published: 12 April 2023

Open Access

A holistic approach of the labour productivity slowdown in the regions of the European Union

Maria Tsiapa

Pages: 507-531 | First Published: 19 April 2023

Open Access

Spatial patterns of Cultural and Creative Industries: Creativity and filière behind concentration

Roberto Dellisanti

Pages: 533-564 | First Published: 15 April 2023

Open Access

Changes in spatial discontinuity in settlement patterns in the Czech‐Polish border area: A case study of Těšín Silesia

Daniel Pavlačka, Dominik Kaim, Krzysztof Ostafin, Jaroslav Burian

Pages: 565-587 | First Published: 13 April 2023

Open Access

Urban crisis vs. urban success in the era of 4.0 technologies: Baumol's model revisited

Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Camilla Lenzi, Giovanni Perucca

Pages: 589-612 | First Published: 29 March 2023

Does external linkage stimulate innovation capacity? The analysis based on “dual‐pipelines” framework

Bangjuan Wang, Weisheng Mao, Junxian Piao, Chengliang Liu

Pages: 613-633 | First Published: 27 April 2023

Nonparametric prediction for univariate spatial data: Methods and applications

Rodrigo García Arancibia, Pamela Llop, Mariel Lovatto

Pages: 635-672 | First Published: 29 April 2023

BOOK REVIEW

Great Minds in regional science, vol. 2 By Peter Batey, David Plane (Eds.), Springer Verlag. 2023. Hardcover price: 145.59. ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐13440‐1

Roberta Capello

Pages: 673-674 | First Published: 08 March 2023

Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research has published the 56^th Issue, the second volume corresponding to 2023.

Below you will find the summaries of the papers published in this volume, which can be accessed at https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/revista/issue-56/ 

We invite authors to submit papers at https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/envio-de-articulos/submission-of-papers-and-others-contributions/

Issue 56

European Regional Policy

Fernando Rubiera Morollón, Tania Fernández García

Spatial Heterogeneity in the Distribution of European Research and Development Funds and its Effects on Territorial Cohesion

The latest research and development (R&D) framework programmes of the European Union (EU), “Horizon 2020” and “Horizon Europe”, have significantly increased the resources available to promote science and innovation in Europe. However, the strong competitiveness of the research teams and their search for excellence may cause inequality in the spatial distribution of investment effort in R&D. The aim of this paper is to analyse the geographic distribution of R&D spending in the EU. A greater concentration of funds is observed in the most advanced and dynamic economies, capable of promoting more competitive research teams and projects. Through an empirical analysis, estimated by a spatial convergence model, it is found that EU R&D funds are preventing cross-regional convergence in Europe by driving growth mainly in wealthier regions. Based on these results, it seems relevant to consider spatial correction mechanisms for the distribution of R&D resources so that they achieve greater territorial cohesion in Europe.

Keywords: Research and development (R&D); competitiveness; productivity growth; regional disparities; territorial cohesion; European Union (EU)

Articles

Ana Melisa Pardo Montaño, Claudio Alberto Dávila Cervantes

The effect of remittance reception in violence. An approximation for the case of Mexico

We analyze the effect of the reception of remittances on violence (approximated by the homicide mortality rate). The relevance of the study lies in the research of two phenomena with high impact on Mexico’s society and economy. We used a linear regression model with instrumental variables. At the municipal level we found a high and positive correlation between the homicide rate and the percentage of households that receive remittances, although this relationship does not extend throughout the whole territory. In general, the reception of remittances had a significant effect in the increase of violence.

Keywords: Remittances; violence; homicides; migration; Mexico

Javier Romaní Fernández, Jordi Suriñach Caralt, Esther Vayá Valcarce

Economic effects associated to airport cities. The case of the Josep Tarradellas Airport - Barcelona - El Prat

Airports have become one of the main factors of urban competitiveness, due to their role as communication nodes and also due to their ability to generate economic activity. The literature shows that, in many metropolitan areas, airports are an important pole of economic activity that attracts companies related to airport activity, but also other types of firms due to their accessibility and the lower price of land compared to the city center. This article describes the plan for the creation of an Airport City at Barcelona Airport and estimates the economic effect that its implementation would have on the Catalan and Spanish economy.

Keywords: Airport city; economic impact; airport

Olga De Cos Guerra

Spatiotemporal patterns of population in Spain (1998-2021). Population decreasing nuances in a bipolar system.

Depopulation is a consolidated research topic and more recently it is also important for governments. In this context, we propose an alternative methodology of emerging patterns to reveal significant trends and nuances of the population decreasing in Spanish municipalities between 1998 and 2021. To this goal, we use conventional sources, such as the Municipal Register of Inhabitants. Our results demonstrate a cold-hot bipolar systemic behavior, more balanced in its surface dimension than in the demographic one. It confirms two realities north-south in the depopulating Spain. Cold spots are concentrated in the northern half of the country with intensifying and consecutive patterns. Finally, the study provides a scalable methodology that is replicable in other periods and/or territories.

Keywords: GIS models; emerging analysis; ordinary least square; cold spots

Nuria Sánchez-Gey Valenzuela, Gloria Jiménez-Marín, Rosalba Mancinas-Chávez

Audiovisual structure in Andalusia as the basis of the regional business sector

The structure of audio-visual television production in Andalusia is complex, particularly the composition of the business fabric of the television system in the autonomous community, insofar as it depends, to a large extent, on public television, Canal Sur Televisión. The aim of this study is to approach the reality of audio-visual production companies specialising in television to find out whether Andalusian public television is fulfilling its public service function and, above all, whether it is a matrix that generates the regional industrial and business fabric. The methodology is based on a simple structural approach, using professional empiricism and participant observation, where the techniques used were qualitative and quantitative: content analysis, direct observation and participant observation, bibliographic techniques, in-depth interviews (using the key informant tool) and surveys. All this took place during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. The results point to the fulfilment of the obligation to promote the development of the Andalusian audio-visual fabric and that of audio-visual production companies, as observed in its regulations.

Keywords: Andalusia; audio-visual; communication; political economy of communication; economics; structure; television production; production companies.

Báltica Cabieses Valdés, Marcela Oyarte Galvez, María Inés Álvarez , Alice Blukacz, Alexandra Obach, Alejandra Carreño Calderón, Claudio Osses Paredes, Edward Mezones-Holguin

Access to healthcare among international migrants in Chile during the pandemic: results from a quantitative poll

The objective of the study was to analyze barriers to access to health care in Chile reported by international migrants residing in the metropolitan region of the country and associated factors. For this purpose, a digital survey on vulnerabilities and resources of migrant communities in Chile to face the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was applied. A descriptive and stratified analysis was performed by demographic and socioeconomic variables, type of health provision and migratory status. As results, immigrants from Haiti reported the highest percentage of barriers to health care access, after adjusting for socio-demographic variables and migratory status.

Keywords: Emigrants and immigrants; health status; human migration; population; socioeconomic factors; COVID-19 pandemic; access to services

Santiago Lago Peñas, Alberto Vaquero García

On the econometric estimates of regional spending needs: are they robust enough?

The aim of this paper is to identify and quantify econometrically the determinants of the spending needs of the Autonomous Communities. The combination of individual fixed effects that capture unobservable inter-territorial differences in spending preferences or efficiency, on the one hand, with expenditure determinants of low variability, on the other poses problems for traditional estimators. To overcome this limitation, alternative econometric specifications and estimators are explored. The results show that the estimated coefficients and their significance change substantially, not being able to guarantee the necessary robustness to sustain an adequate political discussion. Therefore, it is necessary to bet on other strategies for empirical work that allow us to the spending preferences of the Autonomous Communities.

Keywords: Regional spending; preferences; inter-territorial differences; individual effects

In Memoriam

Roberta Capello

In Memoriam: Roberto Camagni

Books reviews

Francisco Pérez-García, Matilde Mas Ivars

The capital stock in Spain and its autonomous communities. Analysis of changes in the composition of investment and capital endowments between 1995 and 2022

The BBVA Foundation has recently published (January 2023) the report on capital endowments in Spain and its autonomous communities corresponding to the period 1995-2022. This report is the latest in a long relationship between the BBVA Foundation and the Ivie that has lasted for more than 25 years. In these years, a database on investment and capital stock has been built following the most established and recognized methodologies at each moment of time. The last methodological change was implemented in the edition prior to this one. The initial year of reference for the database is 1964. Despite the fact that a long historical series is available, in the report that is being reviewed now it has been decided to focus on the most recent period, the one that begins with the 1995 expansion.

Dear all, 

I hope this email finds you well. I am excited to share some information regarding the upcoming "7th CEnSE Urban and Regional Economics Workshop on: Social Interactions in Regions" taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden from October 25th to 27th, 2023.

This workshop will feature three distinguished keynote speakers, whose names are listed below. In addition to the keynote presentations, there will be individual paper sessions where each paper will be assigned a discussant. We kindly request all presenters and participants to also serve as discussants, fostering constructive discussions in an interactive setting. To ensure a focused and engaging environment, there will be no parallel sessions, leading to a limited number of participants. This approach allows for in-depth interactions among attendees.

The keynote speakers are:

• Professor Erik Stam https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=QxSjCzcAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao
• Professor Jason Rentfrow https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=TZ9YLMoAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao
• Professor Charlie Karlsson https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=sjdSGrMAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao

The workshop will be held at the beautiful Hällsnäs Hotel and Conference venue, situated in a picturesque rural setting near Landvetter Airport, Gothenburg. You can find more information about the venue at their website: https://www.hallsnas.se/. Landvetter Airport is conveniently located and serves as Sweden's second-largest airport, providing easy access to various international connections. For more details on the airport and its services, you can visit their website: https://www.swedavia.se/landvetter.

We are pleased to inform you that attendance at the workshop is free of charge. The organizers will cover the costs of accommodation and meals for all participants. However, please note that travel expenses will need to be borne by the attendees themselves. Attached to this email, you will find the call for papers, which contains further information about the workshop. We kindly request you to share this call with your networks if you believe it would be appropriate.

We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you to the workshop this fall! Should you have any questions or require any additional information, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Best regards,

Charlotta Mellander

Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE)

Professor of Economics

Jönköping International Business School

Phone: +46(0)36 10 18 05

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am pleased to write you to send you the newest issue of the RSAI Newsletter (download). 

Enjoy the read, and please do not hesitate to get in touch with Martijn (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Mina (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to propose new material for the newsletter.

Kind regards,

Due to several requests, the deadline for submittimg an abstract for the Fourth European SBCA conference has been extended to June 12, 2023.

Notification of acceptance:

16 June 2023 (for submissions received before May 15)

23 June 2023 (for submissions received after May 15)

Early bird registration deadline: 3 July 2023

Final registration deadline: 14 July 2023

To submit an abstract, GO TO THE EASYCHAIR SUBMISSION PLATFORM:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbca-eu2023

(After opening the link, click  on "create account" and follow the instructions)

All relevant information regarding the conference, including a detailed Call for Abstracts, will be available at the following web page, which will be constantly updated

 https://centrejeanmonnet.unimi.it/sbca-2023/

 https://www.benefitcostanalysis.org/european-conference-2023         

Dear RSAI members,

it is with great pleasure that we deliver good news. As of Jan. 1, 2024 both RSAI journals (Papers in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy & Practice) will be published by Elsevier.

The last decade was marked by continuous growth in quality and volume for both journals. For this, the RSAI is grateful to the current publisher, Wiley, which thoroughly supported our journal editors in the strive for offering better journals to our members.

As we all see from our everyday experience, the publication landscape is changing rapidly, and is in particular showing a fast growth of open access journals. These are meant to increase the access to science to as many researchers as possible, also including those hailing from low-income countries. To meet the needs of the market, the RSAI Council decided to partner with one of the top scientific publishers, Elsevier, to enhance the transition to gold open access for both journals. Therefore, effective Jan. 1, 2024, all articles published by our two journals will be published in the new mode.

As we realize that the transition is uneven, and may have distributional effects for a number of professional categories the RSAI Council has agreed a substantial number of waivers for Article Publishing Charges (APCs) and is now developing guidelines for their distribution. These are in addition to waivers and discounts already granted through initiatives supported by the Publisher such as Research4Life.

We are most happy to let the community know of this further step in the process of growth of our journals, and we can already guarantee that our Editors will keep working hard for selecting sound and impactful research to our community.

Please do follow our journals, web site, and newsletter for being kept abreast of the further developments,

Kind regards,

A Tribute to Richard James Arnott

Richard James Arnott, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), passed peacefully at his home in Riverside on April 21, 2023, after a short battle with leukemia. He was 74 years old.

Born on January 23, 1949, in London to Drs. David Charles and Ruth Margaret Arnott, Richard spent his childhood in England and Canada. He received his B.S. in Urban Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1971, and another M.A. and an M.Phil. in Economics from Yale University in 1972. In 1975, he earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale under the guidance of Joseph E. Stiglitz, who would later receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. Richard’s Ph.D. Dissertation, entitled Topics in Residential Location Theory, pioneered the analysis of the interaction between public finance and the spatial allocation of households, leading to a theory of optimal city size in a spatial economy.

Before joining UCR in 2007, Richard taught at Queen’s University (Canada) from 1975 to 1988, and Boston College from 1988 to 2007. He was affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Research Associate from 1991 to 2005. He had also taken visiting positions at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, and many other prominent institutions in America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

Richard was a multidimensional thinker with diverse interests. Primarily an urban economic theorist, Richard published prominently in urban, public, and transportation economics as well as in microeconomic theory. Examples of his research topics include the optimal city, traffic congestion, the housing market, moral hazard, public finance, urban transportation, and land use. Stiglitz cited ten of his joint works with Richard in his Nobel Prize lecture as having motivated, facilitated, or extended the shift of paradigm in economics toward one that centers our understanding of the market and public policy around problems of information. Richard made significant contributions, primarily theoretical and methodological, to the discipline of regional science throughout his career; for this, he was awarded the Hoyt Academic Fellowship by the Homer Hoyt Institute in 2001, was elected as a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International in 2006, and received the Walter Isard Award of the North American Regional Science Council in 2008.

As part of his professional service, Richard edited the Journal of Economic Geography from 1999 to 2003 and Regional Science and Urban Economics from 2003 to 2007, and he served on over twenty editorial boards. As William S. Vickrey passed away soon after the announcement that he would receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996, Richard served as the archivist of Vickrey’s papers at Columbia University from October 1996 to the end of 1997. Richard also served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association from 1981 to 1984 and as the Vice President of the International Transportation Economics Association from 2010 to 2012. In 2015, Economics of Transportation, the official journal of the International Transportation Economics Association, published a special issue in honor of Richard, not only for his scientific contributions, but also for his many contributions to the journal, the association, and the profession. On campus, Richard assumed numerous administrative responsibilities at the departmental and university levels at Queen’s, Boston College, and UCR, and always fulfilled them with diligence and efficiency. At UCR, among many responsibilities, he served as Chair of the Committee on Research, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Planning and Budget, on the CHASS Executive Committee, and two stints as Graduate Advisor in the Department of Economics. For the public, he advised the Department of Finance of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada, Executive Council of Ontario (Canada), and Province of Ontario (Canada).

One of Richard’s major contributions to the profession was as a mentor to students and junior colleagues. In his career, he supervised or advised more than 70 Ph.D. dissertations at Queen’s, Boston College, and UCR, and many of these students are now tenured professors and have had fruitful research careers. Richard was highly respected, on campus and in the profession, not only for his scholarly contributions, but also for the intellectual support and advice that he generously provided to his colleagues.

Richard was a soft-spoken gentleman with impeccable manners in the best of old English traditions. He will be remembered for his scholarship, service, and mentoring, as well as for his witty humor and enthusiasm for the music of Mozart, films of Alec Guinness, and the game of baseball. But most of all, he will be remembered as an empathic, kind, caring, and generous human being.

Richard is survived and missed by his twin brother John, his sister Jane, and dog Dirk. He asked not to have a service. Information about a scholarship to be created in his name will be forthcoming on the Department of Economics webpage. We will all miss him dearly.