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

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

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Special Issue Theme:

“Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Territorial Inequalities Policies”

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

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

Topics are:

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

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

Important Dates:

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

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

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2020, VOL 10, No 2.

STUDIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VISUALIZATIONS

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

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

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All main sessions from APDR congress were live online and recorded and are now available at the APDR Youtube chanal (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsWNSFYf8oLb4Bc07csWmNQ/videos?view_as=subscriber) or congress page (http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2020/program.html).

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 1163-1164 | First Published: 17 September 2020

FULL ARTICLES

Open Access

Essential ingredients for radical innovations? The role of (un‐)related variety and external linkages in Germany

Kolja Hesse, Dirk Fornahl

Pages: 1165-1183 | First Published: 10 March 2020

Geographic variations in precarious employment outcomes between immigrant and Canadian‐born populations

Waad K. Ali, K. Bruce Newbold

Pages: 1185-1213 | First Published: 18 March 2020

Open Access

Localization, regionalization and globalization of university‐business research co‐operation in the United Kingdom

Robert Tijssen, Wouter van de Klippe, Alfredo Yegros

Pages: 1215-1236 | First Published: 21 March 2020

Open Access

Firm‐specific cluster effects: A meta‐analysis

Nils Grashof

Pages: 1237-1260 | First Published: 09 March 2020

The effects of highways on school segregation

Philip Heidt, M. Taha Kasim

Pages: 1261-1280 | First Published: 16 April 2020

Distributional impacts of food assistance: How SNAP payments to the rural poor affect incomes in the urban core

Paul A. Lewin, Bruce A. Weber

Pages: 1281-1300 | First Published: 10 March 2020

Land use regulations and the dispersion of the IT Industry in the San Francisco Bay area

Taner Osman

Pages: 1301-1316 | First Published: 04 April 2020

An analysis of pedestrian crashes using a spatial count data model

Rebekka E. Apardian, Oleg Smirnov

Pages: 1317-1338 | First Published: 29 February 2020

Staying or leaving? The effects of university availability on educational choices and rural depopulation

Ida Lovén, Cecilia Hammarlund, Martin Nordin

Pages: 1339-1365 | First Published: 21 March 2020

Open Access

Economic impact modelling of smart specialization policy: Which industries should prioritization target?

Attila Varga, Norbert Szabó, Tamás Sebestyén

Pages: 1367-1388 | First Published: 19 March 2020

Evaluation of self‐employment support policies using survival analysis. The discounted flat rate in Andalusia (Spain)

Sandra M. Sánchez‐Cañizares, L. Javier Cabeza‐Ramírez, M. Dolores Guerrero‐Baena

Pages: 1389-1411 | First Published: 04 April 2020

Open Access

Optimizing entrepreneurial development processes for smart specialization in the European Union

László Szerb, Raquel Ortega‐Argilés, Zoltan J. Acs, Éva Komlósi

Pages: 1413-1457 | First Published: 16 April 2020

Firm financial soundness and knowledge externalities: A comparative regional analysis

Lara Abdel Fattah, Giuseppe Arcuri, Aziza Garsaa, Nadine Levratto

Pages: 1459-1486 | First Published: 25 April 2020

The regional anatomy of youths' educational attainment in Spain: The role of the employment structure in local labour markets

Luis Diaz‐Serrano, William Nilsson

Pages: 1487-1508 | First Published: 18 May 2020

BOOK REVIEW

Good economics for hard times Abhijit V. Banerjee Esther Duflo New York: Public Affairs. 2019. 404 pp. ISBN 978 161039 950 0.

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 1509-1511 | First Published: 15 June 2020

Dear RSAI members,

By RSAI Constitution, nominations for Councilors-at-large “shall be made by the Council after solicitation of suggestions from the members of the Association”. At the end of 2020, the positions on the RSAI Council held by Prof. Amit Batabyal (Rochester Institute of Technology), Prof. Sumana Bandyopadhyay (Kolkata University), and Prof. Rosella Nicolini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) will expire; we therefore inform that the proposals for three councilors-at-large can be sent to the address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. within October 10, 2020. Candidatures will have to include a professional CV and a photo.

The election of three councilors-at-large for the period 2021-2023 will take place electronically by RSAI members during the second half of October 2020.

Best regards,

Andrea Caragliu

RSAI Executive Director

Building bridges in regional science

2021 conference participation support

The RSAI facilitates the participation of researchers from low-income and lower-middle-income economies (as defined by the World Bank: https://data.worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income) at the five largest Regional Science Conferences in 2021: LARSA, PRSCO, ERSA, NARSC, and the World Congress.

RSAI will provide a subsidy up to USD 500 (or the equivalent in other currencies) to selected researchers. This is likely to cover the conference registration fee and some local travel costs. Alternative means of financing will have to be sought for international travel and accommodation.

Only one author of a submitted paper presentation proposal can apply for a subsidy.

Interested researchers should upload a two-page CV plus a one-page motivation –including a budget with proposed sources of funding of the conference-related registration, travel and accommodation costs – within 30 days of receiving confirmation of the acceptance of the researcher’s abstract by the conference organizers.

Applicants should have had a paper accepted for presentation at the conference.

All applications, to be submitted at the following link:

https://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4Qb1O9ro1K0LuWIeG

will be reviewed by the Committee and will have to be formally approved by the RSAI Council. Their decision will be final.

Plenary Session

Thursday, 10 September 2020

13:30-15:30 [Brazil, São Paulo]

12:30-14:30 [United States - Eastern Time]

16:30-18:30 [Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal]

17:30-19:30 [Lisbon, Portugal]

18:30-20:30 [Europe - Central European Time]

24:00-02:00 [India]

live online at

http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2020/program.html

Regional Science Policy and Practice

Call for papers

Special Issue Theme: “Policy Challenges and Economic Sustainability during Sudden Pandemic Outbreak”

In the present scenario, a sudden outburst of pandemic diseases can create a profound and serious impact on the global economy, driving policymakers towards finding new and innovative ways to retain economic stability. These diseases when left uncontrolled can initiate a persistent and major-public health problem all over the world with severe consequences. Even with well-determined precaution measures and unremitting lockdown, this sort of epidemic disease often results in a global uncertainty with a huge pressure of the economic crisis.  The impacts of this outbreak include economic loss in various forms, which ranges from mortality to the diverse effects on productivity. Here, the most miserable part is that economic loss due to production efficiency and economic returns are considerably greater than the mortality. On the other side, health hazards relating to this epidemic accompanied by fear and panic, further results in numerous economic risks with a complete blockage of global enterprise and supply chain management facilities.

Economic risks due to pandemics are nontrivial and require careful policy planning and control measures. The consequences of the outbreak are highly indeterminate and have various effects on the economy. Certain sectors such as pharmaceutical industries can financially benefit more, while the other sectors may suffer inexplicably. It is inevitable that vulnerable populations especially the poor people become the victim as they have insufficient access to healthcare facilities with reduced income. Several factors such as trade disproportion, exchange rate movement, variation in market interest, and many more confound the process of policy management during a pandemic outbreak. However, the relationship between pandemic diseases and policy uncertainty can be indirect, but it is real. Most of the complex policy uncertainties can be easily tackled, if there is a cooperative response from a range of departments and government organizations. Hence, developing sustainable policies to deal with improved sanitation, provision of clean water facilities, better urban planning, and infrastructures can lead to an ideal solution as they decrease the rate of recurrence of human contact with pathogenic organisms. Eventually, establishing appropriate policies to build stronger health systems and supporting proper nutrition can empower human health with lesser prone to infectious diseases. However, construction of such policies and maintaining economic stability possess a greater amount of risk that impedes the growth of the country. In this context, this special issue intends to bring out various policy challenges and its appropriate solutions to effectively maintain economic stability during the pandemic situation.

Tentative Topics:

• Effective policy planning and outbreak readiness
• Pandemics: risk, impacts, and mitigation over the society and its preventive measures
• Tackling economic crisis during pandemic situations and policy planning
• Policy challenges during pandemic situations and regulatory mechanisms
• Sustainable policy planning with diversely affected economic sectors
• Impact of demographic trends towards policy planning during pandemic situations
• Effective policy planning measures to meet current needs and resources with future requirements
• Policy evaluation frameworks and tools for sustainable policy development during pandemic situations
• Decision making architectures and design methodologies for long-term policy planning and implementation
• Combined effect of economic crisis and infectious disease control measures on economic sustainability
• Disruptions due to pandemic diseases and their financial consequences

Important Date: Webinar with draft papers April 14, 2021

Guest Editorial Team:

Dr. Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin received the Diploma of Advanced Studies degree from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, in 2008, the M.Sc. degree in Information and Communication Systems from the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Computer Services for the Internet from the University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, in 2012. He was classified with the highest recognition of research by Colciencias in 2017 (Senior Researcher). He is the director of the GIIRA research group of the University District, a group that also received the highest recognition by Colciencias. He is currently a Systems Engineer. His skills and expertise are in the areas of Java Programming, Cloud Computing, Web Development, Object-Oriented Programming, Grid Computing, LMS, Virtualization, Software Engineering, and Linux Administration.

Dr. Paulo Alonso Gaona Garcia received his Ph.D in Information and Knowledge Engineering in Computer Science from University of Alcalá in 2014 and Masters in Information and Information Sciences Communications, Teleinformatics from Francisco José de Caldas District University in 2007. He was working as Professor and Project Advisor in National Pedagogical University. He is currently working as Director of Engineering Research in Francisco José de Caldas District University. His research and publication topics are in the areas of Internet of Things, ad hoc Networks, Error Statistics, Power Consumption, Quality of Service, Telecommunication Power Management, and Wireless Sensor Networks.

Dr. Edward Rolando Nuñez Valdez is working as a Professor at the University of Oviedo in Spain. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Oviedo in Computer Engineering, Master Degree in Software Engineering from the Pontifical University of Salamanca and B.S. in Computer Science from Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. He has participated in several research projects; He has taught computer science at various schools and universities and has worked in software development companies and IT consulting for many years. He has published several articles in international journals and conferences. His research interests include Web Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Recommendation Systems, Modeling Software with DSL and MDE.

2020 elected RSAI Fellows

RSAI is pleased to announce the election of the following Fellows in 2020 - congratulations!

Jouke Van Dijk  University of Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS

Juan Cuadrado-Roura University of Alcalà, SPAIN