Professor James LeSage, from Department of Finance and Economics, Texas State University, received the RSAI Jean Paelinck Award 2019.

The Jean Paelinck Award recognizes and honors the truly outstanding scholarly achievement of a senior and internationally recognized regional scientist in the field of Regional Science Methods and it is awarded with the nomination of five RSAI Fellows, with the selection of the Jury and with the approval by the RSAI Council.

In 2019 the winner of the RSAI dissertation prize was Mingshu Wang for his Thesis entitled “Polycentric Urban Development in China”. He was supervised by Professor Marguerite Madden from University of Georgia. Congratulations!

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INTRODUCTION

North American Regional Science Council

Student Travel Grants for 2020 RSAI World Congress in Marrakesh, Morocco

The North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) supports the next generation of regional scientists in North America. In support of this goal, NARSC will make 5 travel grants ($750 each) available to students based in Canada and the United States who will attend the World Congress of RSAI in Marrakesh, Morocco, June 2-5, 2020. The Congress web page https://www.regionalscience.org/2020worldcongress/index.html includes details for submissions and participation.

Eligibility conditions:

1. Have presented a paper at one of the following conferences in either 2018 or 2019 – NARSC, WRSA, SRSA, or MCRSA.
2. Have submitted a paper for presentation to the World Congress;
3. Affiliation with a North American research organization and North American residence at the time of the application and at the time of the Congress;
4. In case of joint research, only one author can apply for travel support;
5. Must be a student at the time of the World Congress.

Applications will be reviewed by the NARSC Executive Committee. All decisions are final.

Please submit application package via email in Adobe Acrobat format to Dr. Neil Reid, NARSC Executive Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The pdf file should be named after your last and first names (e.g., LastName-FirstName.pdf).

The deadline for grant application is February 3, 2020. Awards will be announced by February 21, 2020.

Applicant package should include the following items:

1. Name, professional status, affiliation, and contact information;
2. Title, author names, and affiliations of the submitted paper(s);
3. Abstract of the submitted paper(s);
4. Estimated itemized travel budget to attend the 2020 RSAI World Congress;
5. Other sources of funding and amount;
6. Statement from applicant why attending the 2020 RSAI World Congress will be beneficial to their future careers as regional scientists. This statement should be no longer than 500 words;
7. Letter of support from academic advisor.

Please note that checks will be issued to recipients after the World Congress.

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.

 http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/eterstat1902.pdf

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2019, VOL 9, No 2.

STUDIES

Rob Atkinson: The Small Towns conundrum:  What do we do about them?

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090201.pdf

János Rechnitzer – Judit Berkes – Bálint Filep: The most important city development initiatives of Hungary

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090204.pdf

Dávid Fekete – Szabolcs Morvay: Creative cities in Central and Eastern Europe –  Examining the position of Győr from the creative and cultural aspects of this macro-region

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090209.pdf

Duco De Vos – Evert Meijers: Population, diversity, and restaurants: trends in the geography of cuisine variety in the Netherlands

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090206.pdf

Attila Béres – György Jablonszky – Tamás Laposa – Györgyi Nyikos: Spatial econometrics: transport infrastructure development and real estate values in Budapest

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090202.pdf

Jose Maria Fernandez-Crehuet – Jorge Rosales-Salas – Gonzalo Galindo Barragán: Construction and validation of an international reputation index: the European case

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090205.pdf

Hanna Dudek – Gülşah Sedefoğlu: Modelling severe material deprivation rates in EU regions using fractional response regression

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090210.pdf

Kenichi Shimamoto: Empirical analysis of the distribution of urban parks in Japan

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090203.pdf

Ramazan Magomedovich Magomedov–Khadzhimurad Arturovich Israpilov – Anatoliy Vasilevich Zolotaryuk – Svetlana Magomedovna Doguchaeva – Olga Yuryevna Gorodetskaia – Olga Nikolaevna Tsvetkova: Regional taxable capacity measurement methodology based on factors that determine tax gaps based on the example of the Republic of Dagestan

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090207.pdf

Kateryna Serhiivna Akbash – Natalia Оleksiivna Pasichnyk – Renat Yaroszlavovich Rizhniak: Adaptation of the UN’s gender inequality index to Ukraine’s regions

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090208.pdf

Tamás Szabó: Public service as an indicator of competitiveness

http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/terstat/2019/rs090211.pdf

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Deadline: 06 December
Consultancy opportunity with UN-Habitat headquarters: Urban Migration Expert

Dear UNI partners,

Do you have experience in urban migration and a passion for sustainable urban practices worldwide?

We are hiring an expert to provide technical Expertise to the implementation of the Housing Rights Programme and the MC2CM project, specifically on the drafting of a City Migration Profile, focusing on the implementation of activities related to housing rights and inclusion of groups in a vulnerable situation.

The consultant will report to and work under the general guidance of the Housing Unit. The consultant will be expected to work remotely. 

Do you want to find out more? Apply before the opening closes on 06 December!
Full job description here.

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Issue Information

Pages: 2209-2210 | First Published: 28 November 2019

FULL ARTICLES

Why are some Spanish regions more resilient than others?

Yolanda Ubago Martínez, Ignacio García‐Lautre, Belén Iraizoz, Pedro Pascual

Pages: 2211-2231 | First Published: 03 July 2019

Foreign firms in core or peripheral areas? The spatial dimension of job creation and wages in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Michele Binetti, Nicola D. Coniglio

Pages: 2233-2250 | First Published: 03 July 2019

Determinants of international tourist choices in Italian provinces: A joint demand–supply approach with spatial effects

Tomaso Pompili, Maurizio Pisati, Eleonora Lorenzini

Pages: 2251-2273 | First Published: 02 July 2019

Open Access

Regional diversity in experiences of cohesion policy: The cases of Emilia‐Romagna and Calabria

Valentina Aiello, Pierre Maurice Reverberi, Cristina Brasili

Pages: 2275-2293 | First Published: 19 June 2019

Spillover effects when IKEA enters: Do incumbent retailers win or lose?

Sven‐Olov Daunfeldt, Oana Mihaescu, Helena Nilsson, Niklas Rudholm

Pages: 2295-2313 | First Published: 07 June 2019

Do new and relocating firms have different preferences for accessibility?

Ioannis Baraklianos, Louafi Bouzouina, Patrick Bonnel, Ouassim Manout

Pages: 2315-2341 | First Published: 14 June 2019

The effect of FAR (floor area ratio) regulations on land values: The case of New York

Byunggeor Moon

Pages: 2343-2354 | First Published: 02 May 2019

Does cognition matter? Applying the push‐pull‐mooring model to Chinese farmers' willingness to withdraw from rural homesteads

Wen Fan, Lifang Zhang

Pages: 2355-2369 | First Published: 25 June 2019

A distance correlation index of spatial dependence for compositional data

1. Simona Andreano, Roberto Benedetti, Federica Piersimoni

Pages: 2371-2389 | First Published: 23 May 2019

SPAG: Index of spatial agglomeration

Katarzyna Kopczewska, Paweł Churski, Artur Ochojski, Adam Polko

Pages: 2391-2424 | First Published: 12 July 2019

Open Access

Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance

Didier Fouarge, Merve Nezihe Özer, Philipp Seegers

Pages: 2425-2454 | First Published: 02 July 2019

The commuting behaviour of self‐employed workers: Evidence for Spain

Juan‐Francisco Albert, José M. Casado‐Díaz, Hipólito Simón

Pages: 2455-2477 | First Published: 06 July 2019

Spread or backwash: The impact on population dynamics and business performance of a new road in a rural county of Galicia (Spain)

David Peón, Jorge Rodríguez‐Álvarez, Edelmiro López‐Iglesias

Pages: 2479-2502 | First Published: 02 July 2019

BOOK REVIEW

Order without design. Alain Bertaud. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 2018. 413 pp. ISBN #9780262038768.

Albert Saiz

Pages: 2503 | First Published: 26 October 2019

REFEREES

Acknowledgement to referees

Pages: 2505-2509 | First Published: 28 November 2019