Dear all,
Our popular Early Career Colloquium is returning as an online event, taking place on 3-4 November 2022. This is a great opportunity for PhD students and early career researchers within 3 years of their PhD to present and discuss their work with experienced academics in their field. We welcome students *at any stage* of their PhD. First-year PhD students are strongly encouraged to apply, and may present research plans or work in progress.
Attendance at the colloquium is *free* for accepted presenters. We would also encourage more established RSAI-BIS members to attend the sessions, and contribute with comments and suggestions. From past experience, we have found this to be a very helpful and fulfilling experience for both presenters and attendees.
A panel of judges will award prizes for the best paper and the best presentation. Prize winners will receive a certificate, and will be entitled to attend our 2023 annual RSAI-BIS conference (in Newscastle, 4-6 July 2023), for free. The prize covers fees, accommodation, and economy-class travel. Shortlisted candidates will also receive a certificate, and their first drink at the 2023 annual conference will be on us.
To apply, please submit a short abstract by the 17th October 2022, using this link: https://www.rsai-bis.org/early-career-22-colloquium.html. The Colloquium is aimed at early career researchers working in the fields of regional and urban economics, environmental policy, economic geography, political geography, planning, and all related fields.
Presenters who wish to be considered for the best paper prize will be expected to submit a full paper by the 28th October 2022.
We hope to see you all there!
Organising committee (Daragh O'Leary, Richard Rijnks, Matt Lyons, Maria Abreu) and RSAI-BIS Committee.
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THE NEW ISSUE OF REGIONAL STATISTICS IS ALREADY AVAILABLE!
We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.
https://www.ksh.hu/terstat_eng_current_issue
REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2022, VOL 12, No 4.
STUDIES
Vahide Bulut – Serdar Korukoglu: Surface curvature analysis of bivariate normal distribution: A Covid-19 data application on Turkey
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120401.pdf
Zoltán Birkner – Ádám Mészáros – István Szabó: Handling regional research, development and innovation (RDI) disparities in Hungary: New measures of university-based innovation ecosystem
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120402.pdf
Hasan Engin Duran – Burhan Can Karahasan: Heterogenous responses to monetary policy regimes: A regional analysis for Turkey, 2009–2019
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120403.pdf
Senanu K. Klutse – Gábor D. Kiss – Judit Sági: Exchange market pressure in Sub-Saharan African countries – The role of imports and short-term external debt, 2002–2017
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120404.pdf
András Bethlendi – Katalin Mérő: Measuring shadow banking in Central and Eastern European countries: A new dataset, 2004–2019
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120405.pdf
Tamás Dusek – Miklós Lukovics: The impact of a low-cost airline’s flights on local economy – On the example of Cluj-Napoca International Airport (Romania)
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120406.pdf
Tamás Sikos T. – Dóra Szendi: Evolution of smart village models in Hungarian Abaúj micro-region
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120407.pdf
Levente B. Alpek – Zsuzsa M. Császár – Ábel Dávid Tóth – Klára Czimre: Impacts of the international students’ consumption expenditures on the national economy in Hungary,
2020
https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_04/rs120408.pdf
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It is a pleasure to inform you that the issue n. 62 (September 2022) of our journal (Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais / Portuguese Review of Regional Studies) is now available online. You can accede to the issue using the following link: https://review-rper.com/index.php/rper/issue/view/62
Thank you for contributing to the success of the journal. We will go on counting on you!
Social economy and social entrepreneurship are no longer just an alternative development perspective or a symbolic, ethical or solidarity issue of the contemporary world. Social involvement in various spheres of communities, economy, or ecology is becoming more and more real and meaningful in urban and local policy and development. The term development means not only progress in the sense of a market economy but development as an increase of spaces of socioeconomic-ecological synergy, social and institutional trust, economics of inclusion, equality and equilibrium in all aspects of humanity.
We observe emerging critical currents as part of the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, business models innovation, (global) value chains and local economic (eco)systems. These evolving concepts in conjunction with prevailing uncertainty caused by epidemic threats, humanitarian crises, energy challenges, or environmental changes must result in ever faster socioeconomic development’s paradigm shifts. The concept of development should increasingly mean responsible transformation of existing lifestyles, social and business practices, and local and urban policies and planning.
Catalysts for changing existing paradigms include the emergence of social economy and social entrepreneurship as a conceptual-material frame for engaging local communities in real transformative activities for creating social values. These social and institutional practices are often linked to the level and specificity of social capital, cultural capital or habitus in Bourdieu's approach. The progression of community engagement in urban and local development in various entrepreneurial forms is also determined by inter-institutional play and organizational field structures in terms of DiMaggio and Powell's conceptualization.
In different parts of the world, there are different types of prevailing problems and different, often specific, ways of solving them. Increasingly, the potential and power to solve these challenges is linked to the level of community activism, in correlation with cultures of social practices, policy, and territorial governance.
This compels scientific exploration, which increasingly needs to be interdisciplinary, innovative and stereotype-breaking. The purpose of this special issue is to present innovative and/or critical research on the multi-level relationship between the emergence of social economic practices, particularly social entrepreneurship, and urban and rural development in different regions of the world. With this intention, we invite papers including contributions on the following main themes:
We invite papers from many perspectives and fields of academic research and from around the world. A variety of research approaches, both qualitative, quantitative or highly encouraged comparative studies and case studies, will be appreciated.
Authors are invited to submit an abstract by the February 28, 2023 to Piotr Pachura (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.); Aneta Pachura (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.); Neil Reid (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Kvetoslava Matlovičová (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). You will be informed about the status of your abstract on or around March 15, 2023. Authors of selected abstracts will be expected to submit full papers no later than 30 September 2023, and publication expected in Spring/Summer 2024, following the peer review process.
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research has recently published the Issue volume 53, the second volume corresponding to 2022, the year in which the journal of the Spanish Association of Regional Science celebrates its twentieth anniversary.
This 2022 the journal has been positioned in the First Quartile (Q1) of Scopus, and we have known that in 2023 we will have receive a Journal Impact Factor in the Web of Science Core Collection of Clarivate.
Below you will find the summaries of the papers published in this volume, which can be accessed at https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/revista/numero-53-verano-2022/
Nicholas Charron, Víctor Lapuente, Monika Bauhr, Paola Annoni
Despite massive investments, studies suggest that anticorruption efforts often times fail and that countries and regions with historically deficient quality of government tend to be stuck in a vicious cycle of high levels of corruption and inadequate public service delivery. However, this study suggests that despite the stickiness of subnational quality of government, regional quality of government does shift over time. Using the 2021 European Quality of Government Index (EQI), and comparing the results to previous rounds of this survey, we show that there has indeed been noticeable shifts in the regional level of Quality of Government both within countries and across time. Overall, we find a slight increase in the perceived quality of government of European regions compared with 2017. However, some regions have evaded the positive trend, most notably in Poland and Hungary, whose response to the pandemic – probably not coincidentally – has involved important infringements of democratic rights and institutions. These changes in Quality of government call for a close mapping of the trends within countries and across regions and a focus on their determinants. To this end, the paper also serves as an introduction to the use of 2021 European Quality of Government (EQI) index, which is the most comprehensive survey to date to measure perceptions of subnational quality of government with a total of 129,000 respondents in 208 NUTS 1 and NUTS 2 regions and all EU 27-member state countries.
Keywords: Europe; regions; corruption; quality of government; time series; measurement; Covid-19
Wojciech Dyba, Eleonora Di Maria, Maria Chiarvesio
Industry 4.0, a concept comprising a range of promising innovations enabled by the recent advancements in digital technologies, has become a priority of industrial policy in many European countries and regions. In this paper, we present actions undertaken by regional organisations (including the so-called Digital Innovation Hubs), fostering the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in manufacturing companies. Using examples from Germany, Italy and Poland, we show actions that enable the creation of general conditions for such implementations and help companies develop an individual strategy for adopting Industry 4.0 innovations.
Keywords: Industry 4.0; support; actions; regions; Digital Innovation Hubs
Domingo Rodríguez Benavides, Owen Eli Ceballos Mina
Regional Convergence Clubs in Colombia 2000-2016: A Flexible Analysis by Provinces
Economic convergence studies in Colombia have shown mixed results. It is relevant to provide evidence that allows to focus public policy efforts to reduce the gaps between the country’s regions. This paper using Colombian departments and the district capital applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) test to evaluate the hypothesis of total convergence versus the presence of regional clubs in GDP per capita in 2000-2016. We found evidence of divergence for the entire country but multiple steady states and departmental convergence clubs if the main mining regions are excluded from the analysis.
Keywords: Economic-growth; convergence; nonlinear models; Colombia
Friederike Seifert
The Income-Inequality Relationship within US Metropolitan Areas 1980-2016
Economic growth might both increase and decrease income inequality, also at the city level. This paper examines the income-inequality relationship within US metropolitan areas and finds that it changes over time. A higher average income per capita level was associated with a lower inequality level in earlier years, but this association vanished later. For the 1980-2000 panel, increases in the average income per capita are associated with decreases in inequality. In contrast, increases in the average income per capita are asso-ciated with increases in inequality in the 2006-2016 panel. The obtained results hint at polarization re-sulting from technological change substituting middle-skill routine tasks.
Keywords: Inequality; income; metropolitan areas; United States
Felipe Torres Torres, Agustín Rojas Martínez
Food security at the crossroads of regional inequalities in Mexico
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the regional dimensions of food security, seen as a structural problem of development in Mexico during the period 2000-2020. The hypothesis is that the commercial opening implemented in the country under a framework of asymmetric economic development, widened its socio-territorial inequalities and with it the food insecurity gap. To investigate this phenomenon, we applied the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Dalenius-Hodges stratification methods, with which we built a measurement index at municipal and regional scales. The results obtained indicate that, seen both by number of regions and population proportion, more than half of Mexicans face some degree of food insecurity. Reversing this situation implies deploying a food policy aimed at recovering self-sufficiency in the production of basic grains and guaranteeing access to food, mainly by improving income among the population located in the ranges of poverty and extreme poverty.
Keywords: Food security; regional inequalities; agricultural policy; municipal and regional food security index; principal component analysis method
María Soledad Campos Lucena, África Ruiz-Gándara, María de Magdala Pérez Nimo, Francisco Javier Ortega Irizo, Francisco Velasco Morente
Objetivos: Con este trabajo se persigue detectar, en el sistema sanitario español, que servicios sanitarios son eficientes y cuáles no, así como proponer medidas correctoras que permitan a los servicios sanitarios ineficientes alcanzar la eficiencia.
Metodología: Este trabajo aplica la metodología del análisis envolvente de datos (DEA), que permite obtener las eficiencias natural y gerencial, así como las desviaciones de las unidades ineficientes con relación a las eficientes, y proponer medidas correctoras que impliquen únicamente modificaciones presupuestarias (natural) o cambios en las políticas de gestión de recursos (gerencial).
Resultados: A través de las eficiencias, o la falta de ellas, los servicios sanitarios de las 17 comunidades autónomas españolas se clasifican en cuatro grupos: Con eficiencia natural o gerencial alta, media-alta, media-baja o baja.
Conclusiones: La falta de eficiencia natural puede corregirse con una mayor dotación presupuestaria, la falta de eficiencia gerencial con un recorte presupuestario y cambios en las políticas de gestión de recursos. Esta tendencia contraria de los ajustes es precisamente la que dota este trabajo del interés y novedad con respectos a otros que aplican el DEA en sectores diferentes como aquellos que estudian el impacto en el medioambiente de los consumos de recursos. Otro aspecto importante de este estudio es la posibilidad de aplicarlo a otros países con estructuras políticas similares.
Palabras clave: Análisis envolvente de datos; eficiencia natural; eficiencia gerencial; análisis clúster; Sistema Nacional de Salud
Leonardo J. Mastronardi, Carlos A. Romero, Sebastián N. González
Interregional analysis using a bi-regional input-output matrix for Argentina
This paper presents a regional case study using a Bi-Regional Input-Output (BRIO) matrix of Buenos Aires City (BAC) and the Rest of Argentina (ROA), constructed from the Argentinian Input-Output matrix. A hybrid approach was applied to obtain the BRIO matrix, which combines pure non-survey methods with matrix-balancing methods like RAS or Cross-Entropy. Once the BRIO matrix was obtained, our study has focused on analyzing the BAC regional structure and the interconnections between regions. We have also estimated the regional and national carbon footprint for the BAC and Argentina, respectively. Results show that service and industry sectors play an important role in the economy of BAC and some of them have strong interregional spillover effects over the rest of the country. In addition, the results also show that sectors on BAC with the highest regional multipliers are also the ones with highest emissions.
Keywords: Interregional input-output model; carbon footprint; bi-regional input-output tables; location quotients; cross entropy
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ISSN: 1695-7253 E-ISSN: 2340-2717
2023/2024 RSAI World Congress | Request for Proposals
The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) aims to hold a world congress at least once every two years. Unfortunately, the last congress – in Marrakech in 2020 – had to be postponed to 2021, and held online, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. RSAI considers world congresses an important instrument for furthering its mission of global advancement of regional analysis and related spatial and areal studies for the benefit of society.
The RSAI calls for proposals to host a world congress in 2023/2024. Potential hosts are RSAI Supra-Regionals, Sections or Members that have a proven track record of hosting conferences and related events. A world congress may be held concurrently with another event or as a standalone event. Proposals must be submitted by Monday, October 31, 2022, 23:59 CET. Proposals are evaluated by the RSAI Council. A decision will be made at the RSAI Council meeting to be held in Montreal, during the annual NARSC meeting; depending on the quality of the proposals received, the RSAI reserves the right not to organize a congress in 2023, or to propose the organization for 2024. This document outlines the application process, organization and expected outcomes regarding the 2023/2024 world congress.
Prior RSAI World congresses
1980 1st – Cambridge Mass. (Harvard University), USA
1984 2nd – Rotterdam (Erasmus University), Netherlands
1989 3rd – Jerusalem (Kibbutz Ramat Rachel), Israel
1992 4th – Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1996 5th – Tokyo (Rissho University), Japan
2000 6th – Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
2004 7th – Port Elizabeth, South Africa
2008 8th – Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 9th – Timisoara, Romania
2018 10th Goa, India
2021 11th Marrakech, Morocco (online only)
Criteria for a successful 2023/2024 world congress
Organization of the congress
Application Process
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Regional Science Policy & Practice Pages: 695-1027 August 2022 Issue Edited by: Katarzyna Kopczewska, John Östh, Umut Türk, Jie Huang |
Free Access
Pages: 695-696 | First Published: 13 September 2022
Regional development in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia
Katarzyna Kopczewska
Pages: 697-698 | First Published: 13 September 2022
Spatial spillover effects of corruption in Asian countries: Spatial econometric approach
Masoud Khodapanah, Zahra Dehghan Shabani, Mohammad Hadi Akbarzadeh, Mahboubeh Shojaeian
Pages: 699-717 | First Published: 31 October 2020
Tomasz Studzieniecki, Andrzej Jakubowski, Beata Meyer
Pages: 718-739 | First Published: 25 March 2021
A new planning instrument for urban development in Hungary: The modern cities program
Dávid Fekete
Pages: 740-758 | First Published: 21 April 2021
Harmonization of Russian supply chain management standards with EU requirements
Viktor Shestak, Viktor Konstantinov, Vladislav Govorov, Evgenia Budko, Oleg Volodin
Pages: 759-777 | First Published: 21 April 2021
Rural area sustainable development strategies on the basis of a cluster approach
Rasul Gusmanov, Eugene Stovba, Alfiya Kuznetsova, Iskander Gusmanov, Timur Taipov, Gulnara Muhametshina, Liana Akhmetova
Pages: 778-795 | First Published: 13 September 2021
The resilience of Russian Arctic cities 1989–2017
Andrey Polyachenko
Pages: 796-825 | First Published: 29 March 2022
Night light indicators of regional economic activity
Katarzyna Kopczewska
Pages: 826-827 | First Published: 13 September 2022
Krittaya Sangkasem, Nattapong Puttanapong
Pages: 828-849 | First Published: 22 December 2020
Mapping poverty rates in Chile with night lights and fractional multinomial models
Simone Cecchini, Giovanni Savio, Varinia Tromben
Pages: 850-876 | First Published: 25 March 2021
Alexander Sheludkov, Alexandra Starikova
Pages: 877-890 | First Published: 10 June 2021
Predicting intra‐urban well‐being from space with nonlinear machine learning
Piotr Wójcik, Krystian Andruszek
Pages: 891-913 | First Published: 19 September 2021
Modelling place attractiveness in the era of big and open data
John Östh, Umut Türk, Jie Huang
Pages: 914-915 | First Published: 13 September 2022
Open Access
Where is the consumer centre? A case of St. Petersburg
Konstantin Kholodilin, Irina Koroleva, Darya Kryutchenko
Pages: 916-938 | First Published: 25 June 2020
Open Access
House price valuation of environmental amenities: An application of GIS‐derived data
Liv Osland, John Östh, Viggo Nordvik
Pages: 939-959 | First Published: 06 December 2020
Open Access
Commuting patterns of preschool children in metropolitan Stockholm
Andreas Alm Fjellborg, Håkan Forsberg
Pages: 960-980 | First Published: 01 March 2021
Open Access
Intergenerational income mobility in Sweden: A look at the spatial disparities across municipalities
Alessandra Michelangeli, John Östh, Umut Türk
Pages: 981-1004 | First Published: 09 July 2021
Open Access
Stated locational preferences of Italian entrepreneurs: The underlying location factors
Dario Musolino, Wim Meester, Piet Pellenbarg
Pages: 1005-1021 | First Published: 18 November 2021
Fadli Agus Triansyah
Pages: 1022-1024 | First Published: 06 June 2022
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Pages: 1025-1027 | First Published: 06 June 2022
The Regional Science Association International (RSAI), founded in 1954, is an international community of scholars interested in the regional impacts of national or global processes of economic and social change.