Call for Papers

14th Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Regional Economics Workshop

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Ron Boschma | Vienna, October 2 - 3, 2023

The Austrian Institute of  Economic  Research  (WIFO)  is  very  pleased  to  announce  the 14th international workshop in honor of Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and member of WIFO's Scientific Board.

Prof. Hewings has published numerous scientific contributions in economics, economic geog- raphy, urban and regional planning, input-output analysis and other fields. He is famous for being a scholar always eager to share his knowledge and give profound and positive advice to younger researchers.

Any empirical contribution within the field of regional economics is welcome. The topics of interest include questions related to:

• regional specialization, structural change, and knowledge diffusion
• regional location analyses, spatial location choice, and location concepts
• geographical impact of economic policy measures
• regional labor markets
• regional tourism
• regional planning

We are proud to announce that we have been able to attract Professor Dr. Ron Boschma as keynote speaker. The title of his talk will be:

“Opportunities spaces of European regions: the role of regional capabilities and inter-regional linkages”

Ron Boschma is a reputable expert in the fields of Regional Economics and Economic Geog- raphy and Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at the Fac- ulty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. He is also affiliated as Professor at the University of Sta- vanger, Norway. From 2013 to 2015 he was Director of the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy at Lund University. He has widely published in interna- tional journals on evolutionary economic geography, the spatial evolution of industries, re- gional systems of innovation, the structure and evolution of networks, agglomeration external- ities and regional growth and diversification. In an interdisciplinary context, he is engaged in the programs “Institutions for Open Societies” and “Pathways to Sustainability”. He has been member of the Research, Innovation and Science Experts (RISE) High-Level Advisory Body to European Commissioner Carlos Moedas 2015-2016 and is Board member of the International Regional Studies Association. From 2018-2020 he was member of the Scientific Advisory Group of DG Regional and Urban Policy, from 2018 to 2025 Ron Boschma is nominated as a member of the Commissie Sectorplan Social Sciences and Humanities in the Netherlands (National Ad- visory Group to the Minister of Education, Culture and Science).

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from various fields of economics working mainly at the regional level to discuss ideas and exchange knowledge. Moreover, it should be emphasized that the workshop should also attract contributions characterized as "work in pro- gress" and those from young researchers. Submissions should include an extended abstract (minimum of 300 words) or a full paper.

The workshop will be held at WIFO in Vienna. There are no fees for participants of the workshop. All papers presented may be published in the WIFO Working Paper series. Abstracts of papers and/or full papers intended for presentation should be prepared in PDF-format and be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 30, 2023

Notification of acceptance: August 11, 2023

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am writing to circulate the interesting call for submissions to the Regional Science session at the 2024 ASSA meeting in San Antonio, TX (Jan. 5-7, 2024).

The session is organized and chaired by Prof. Sandy Dall'erba (University of Illinois at Urbana) and Adam Rose (USC Sol Price School of Public Policy). You may apply by submitting your paper or long abstract (1-2 pages) including authors’ name, affiliation and contact information to Sandy Dall’erba at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. within June 7, 2023.

Submissions are not associated with a fee. Fees will have to paid to ASSA if your paper is selected.

Thank you in advance for your attention,

Kind regards,

Andrea Caragliu

Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics

Politecnico di Milano, ABC Department

RSAI Executive Director

ISSUE INFORMATION

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax (University of Sfax) are organising the first international conference on sustainable regional development in cities and territories in the developing world. The conference aims to bring together leading scientists, researchers and academics to exchange and share their expertise and knowledge on all aspects of sustainable development at the scale of cities and territories. It also serves as an interdisciplinary platform to discuss existing trends and challenges and responses adapted to the context of developing countries.

The program is now available at: http://conferencetunisia.weebly.com/program.html

Seohee Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Duke University has been selected as the winner of the 23 rd Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science. The Fellowship will provide a 2023–2024 Academic Year stipend of $30,000 to support Ms. Kim’s dissertation research on “National Homebuilders’ Internal Capital Networks and Local Housing Outcomes.”

Ms. Kim’s research investigates how local housing shocks propagate across US regions through homebuilders' internal capital markets and spillovers to competing builders. Despite their importance in the provision of affordable housing, there has been a scarcity of research on modeling the supply side of new housing markets, particularly the behavior of large national homebuilders. This is due to the difficulty of assembling data on the production network and
outcomes, and also the lack of fundamental understanding of the nature of competition among builders. Her research quantifies the aggregate and distributional impact of rising homebuilding industry concentration and presents the results of a counterfactual scenario in which financial frictions for corporate homebuilders are eliminated. Ms. Kim’s doctorial research is supervised
by Daniel Yi Xu, Professor of Economics at Duke University.

In addition to selecting the Fellowship recipient, the Selection Committee identified three applicants as meriting special recognition as finalists in the 23rd Annual Competition: Laura Weiwu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by David Donaldson; Kate Harwood, New York University, advised by Ingrid Ellen; and JoopYup Park, Duke University, advised by Patrick Bayer.

The 23rd competition winner and finalists will be recognized at the awards luncheon of the 70th North American Meetings of the RSAI in San Diego, CA. The Committee thanks the 15 students who entered the competition, as well as their dissertation supervisors.

The Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science was established in 1998 in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens (1929–1997), an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend continues to have a profound impact on the field of Regional Science. Graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in North America are eligible to compete for the Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in support of their dissertation research in Regional Science.

Faculty at all North American Ph.D. programs are asked to encourage their best students to apply for the 24 th Stevens Graduate Fellowship, which will support the winning student’s dissertation research in the field of Regional Science with a fellowship stipend of $30,000 for the 2024–2025 academic year. The application deadline is February 15, 2024. Full submission guidelines may be found at www.narsc.org/newsite/awards-prizes/applications/ 

The 2023 Stevens Fellowship competition was overseen by a Selection Committee composed of: Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Chair); Nicholas Nagle, University of Tennessee; Shaoming Cheng, Florida International University; Heather Stephens, West Virginia University; and Zhenhau Chen, The Ohio State University. The Stevens Fellowship Committee administrates the Stevens Fellowship Fund on behalf of the North American Regional Science Council; its members are: Tony Smith, University of
Pennsylvania, Chair; David Plane, University of Arizona, Secretary; Michael Lahr, Rutgers University, Treasurer; Janet Kohlhase, University of Houston; and John Sporing, Executive Director of NARSC.

Fundraising to support the Stevens Fellowship Fund, begun in 1998, is ongoing. Donations may be made either via credit card by accessing the User Area of the NARSC website or by sending a check to: The Stevens Fellowship Fund / First Financial Bank, Attn: Danville Trust Department / One Towne Center / Danville, IL 61832 USA.

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 available online.

https://www.ksh.hu/terstat_eng_current_issue

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2023, VOL 13, No 2.

STUDIES

Manuel Ruiz-Marín – Mariluz Maté-Sánchez-Val –  Jose Noguera-Venero: Did Covid-19 modify the spatial concentration of business failure?

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130201.pdf

Andrea Bucci – Luigi Ippoliti  – Pasquale Valentini   : Analysing spatiotemporal patterns of Covid-19 confirmed deaths at the NUTS-2 regional level

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130202.pdf

Ngo Thai Hung.: What effects will Covid-19  have on the G7 stock markets? New evidence from a cross-quantilogram approach

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130203.pdf

Cuong Viet Nguyen: Effects of weather on the health of individuals: Comparative evidence from Cambodia,  Laos, and Vietnam

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130204.pdf

Tímea Győri: Categorisation of regions in  the European Union based on smart and inclusive growth indicators for  the Europe 2020 strategy

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130205.pdf

Arif Rahman Hakim – Nachrowi D. Nachrowi – Dwini Handayani – I Dewa Gede Karma Wisana : The measuring of urban amenities index and its effect

on migration: Evidence from Indonesian cities

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130206.pdf

Muhammad Nadeem – Muhammad Irfan Malik – Shahid Adil – Novaira Junaid: Exploring the determinants of  ecological efficiency in selected emerging economies using pooled mean group estimator

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130207.pdf

Nuray Tezcan: Towards sustainable development goal 3:  The case of the Balkan countries

https://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2023/2023_02/rs130208.pdf

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Call for applications

The Peter Nijkamp Research Encouragement Award

The award recognizes the outstanding potential of a mid-career researcher from a nation in the developing world in which there is a section of RSAI. Conditions for applications are:

• No more than 10 years from the doctoral qualification (by Dec 31, 2022);
• Live in developing nations continuously for at least three years as at Dec 31, 2022;
• Be a member of RSAI in good standing;
• Submit a written formal research paper on a topic in Regional Science;
• Submit an updated version of CV.

All material must be submitted to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Nominees will be judged in part on the evaluation of the paper and in part on an evaluation of the research track record and performance (CV).

The winner(s) will receive support, up to 750 Euro, to participate in a Supra-Regional meeting or in the World Congress, at which the paper will be presented.

The jury will comprise the Immediate Past-President of RSAI as Chair, an Editor of Papers in Regional Science, and two RSAI Fellows.

Deadline for the applications: May 31, 2023.