Dear Colleagues,
the Department of Social Sciences and Economics of Sapienza University of Rome (DISSE) and the Department of Political Science of University Roma Tre (DISCIPOL) and the Regional Science Association of Italy (AISRE) organize the first international conference: “Challenges in Evaluating Regional and Urban Policy”, CERUP 2018.
The conference will be hosted by the Sapienza Conference Centre, on 8-9 March 2018.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

GIUSEPPE ARBIA, Professor of Economic Statistics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
MARTIN HUBER, Professor of Applied Econometrics, University of Fribourg

SUBMISSION

Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcomed on the following main topics: counterfactual evaluation methods, spatial econometric methods for impact evaluation, policies for urban and regional economic growth, policies for economic and social resilience.

We encourage scholars to submit a paper (a complete draft, preliminary paper)  about their original research by January 11st, 2018 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in order to present in a paper session.

Only for poster presentation, an abstract (maximum 600 words) must be submitted for review by January 11st, 2018 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The abstract should be submitted as a word document and should include the title, the authors and describe: background, aim of the research, methodology, results, relevance to the conference theme.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 8th.

Further information will be made available on the CERUP2018’s website:
https://sites.google.com/view/cerup2018

Kind regards,
Guido Pellegrini and Marusca De Castris

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Estimados compañeros:

Os recordamos que el “Call for Experiences” de las XIV Jornadas sobre Docencia de Economía Aplicada finaliza el 12 de enero de 2018.

Se invita a todos los profesores a que envíen trabajos en los que expliquen los métodos innovadores que han aplicado a su labor docente en las diferentes materias que integran el área de Economía Aplicada así como los Trabajos Fin de Grado (en formato poster) defendidos en los últimos dos cursos y con una calificación igual o superior a 8.

El envío habrá de realizarse a la dirección de correo electrónico This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; en el archivo habrá de constar título del trabajo y nombre, filiación y dirección de correo electrónico del autor o coautores (y del director/tutor en el caso de los TFGs). Los trabajos estarán sujetos a un proceso de evaluación y selección por parte del Comité Científico. La notificación de los trabajos aceptados tendrá lugar el 29 de enero de 2018 y las Jornadas se celebrarán el viernes 9 de febrero.

Se concederá un Premio a la mejor comunicación en cada una de las dos categorías de trabajos considerados: a) Ponencia, efectivamente presentada, sobre experiencia docente innovadora y b) TFG en formato póster. El primero de los premios estará dotado con 300 euros y el segundo con 200 euros. Asimismo, podrán concederse hasta dos Accésit, sin dotación económica, a los trabajos que queden en segundo lugar.  

En la web de la Asociación (www.alde.es) está disponible el programa así como otra información relevante como boletín de inscripción, cuotas, procedimiento para el envío de experiencias docentes y fechas de interés.

Esperamos contar contigo en las XIII Jornadas sobre Docencia de Economía Aplicada.

Un saludo afectuoso

ALdE

Dear colleague:

We have just published a new issue of the journal Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research (Issue Nº 39). It is now available both on line and print version.

The journal is Scimago JRC (Scopus) and indexed in other scientific and academic international databases (Emerging Source Citation Index (ESCI), EBSCO, ProQuest, EconLit, RePec, DOAJ, Redalyc, Latindex, …).

This is the contents:

Title: ‘Clusters, Industrial Districts and Strategy’

Introduction:

• Clusters, Industrial Districts and Strategy - Francisco Puig, Miguel González-Loureiro

Articles:

• Inter-Organizational Relationships, Knowledge Strategy and Innovation in Clusters of Cultural Tourism - Dioni Elche, Ángela Martínez-Pérez, Pedro M. García-Villaverde
• Disruptive Technological Innovations as New Opportunities for Mature Industrial Clusters. The Case of Digital Printing Innovation in the Spanish Ceramic Tile Cluster - Francesc Xavier Molina-Morales, Luís Martínez-Cháfer, David Valiente-Bordanova
• The Role of Institutional and Territorial Factors in Innovation: the Case of the Spanish Footwear Components Industry - Ángel Belzunegui Eraso, Miguel Ángel Miralles Amorós, M.ª Teresa Pastor Gosálbez
• Economic Competitiveness: Effects of Clustering, Innovation Strategy and the Moderating Role of Location in the Colombian Hotel Industry - Orietha E. Rodríguez-Victoria, Miguel González-Loureiro, Francisco Puig
• Location Decisions and Agglomeration Economies: Domestic and Foreign Companies -
• From Delocalisation to Backshoring? Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts - Marco Bettiol, Chiara Burlina, Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria
• Strategic Responses to Environmental Turbulence: A Study of Four Brazilian Exporting Clusters - Angela da Rocha, Beatriz Kury, Rodrigo Tomassini, Luciana Velloso
• Clusters’ Vital Role in Promoting International Competitive Advantage - Towards an Explanatory Model of Regional Growth - Aihie Osarenkhoe, Daniella Fjellström
• Intra-Cluster Cooperation Enhancing SMEs’ Competitiveness - The Role of Cluster Organisations in Poland - Barbara Jankowska, Marta Götz, Cezary Główka

The Journal has a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming submissions from fields such as Economics, Geography, Sociology, Land Planning and Political Science, whose scientific focus, originality and added value contribute to the dissemination of new ideas and methodological approaches, strengthening and improving the quality of the publication, via its This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

To contact us and/or to submit manuscripts:

            Investigaciones Regionales – Journal of Regional Research

            Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Yours sincerely,

Journal of Regional Research - Investigaciones Regionales 

International Conference
The Economy as a Spatial Complex System (ESCoS 2018) – II CICSE Workshop
June 21-22 2018, Naples (Italy)

The University of Naples “Federico II” in partnership with CICSE and ISSM-CNR is organizing the International Conference “The Economy as a Spatial Complex System” (ESCoS) to be held in Naples (Italy), June 21-22, 2018.

Aim of the Conference: The objective of ESCoS 2018 (http://conference-escos.com/) is to bring together economists, regional scientists, mathematicians, econometricians, statisticians and social scientists (sociologists, political scientists), who share the view that the economy is a complex system with a spatial dimension, to present and discuss their recent work which may have a theoretical or an empirical perspective or aim to develop advanced mathematical, computational or empirical methods for analysing complex systems (nonlinear dynamics, social network analysis, game theoretical models, agent based models). A combination of invited and submitted papers will be chosen for the final programme.

Conference Topics: We welcome submissions in a wide range of topics that include, but are not limited, to: Multiregional New Economic Geography models; Regional policies and regional inequalities; Trade agreements and their impact on the economy; Regional development and growth; Spatial econometrics methods; Location choices and factor mobility; Social and industrial interactions; Financial networks; Labour markets and migration; Mathematical and computational methods for the analysis of Complex Spatial Economic Systems.

Keynote speakers:

➢ Kristian Behrens (University of Québec at Montréal);

➢ Maria Durban (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Key deadlines

➢ Abstracts Submission (between 300-400 words): January 31st;

➢ Notification of Acceptance: February 15th;

➢ Registration: February 15 th - April 30th;

➢ Papers Submission: May 30th.

Please submit your abstract and paper to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Publishing opportunities A selection of papers presented at the Conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Spatial Economic Analysis and of Metroeconomica. Papers that will be published in both special issues will meet Journals’ standards, and will be refereed and go through the Journals’ usual review process.

Scientific Committee

Gian Italo Bischi, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; Spiros Bougheas, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; Salvatore Capasso, CNR-Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Society, Italy; Pasquale Commendatore, University of Naples Federico II, Italy; Laura Gardini, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; Alan Kirman, University of Aix-Marseille, France; Michael Kopel, University of Graz, Austria; Ingrid Kubin, Vienna; University of Economics and Business, Austria; Tönu Puu, Umeå University, Sweden; Neri Salvadori, University of Pisa, Italy; Luis Miguel Varela, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

We would appreciate it if you circulate this Call for Papers on to other colleagues.

Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; For more information: http://conference-escos.com/

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

An International Journal

Entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized towns/communities

CALL FOR PAPERS

Entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized towns/communities

Background

Over the last decades, the economic development of and, in particular, entrepreneurial

dynamics in small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) have mostly gone unnoticed (BELL and JAYNE 2009; Lorentzen and van Heur 2012; Schneidewind et al. 2006). In the meantime, scholars and policy-makers highlighted the role of metropolitan regions as engines of growth just like the traditional geographic and urban studies have emphasized (Hall and Pain 2006; Thierstein et al. 2008). This is a significant omission because non-metropolitan areas account for a sizable share of population in many countries (Mayer and Knox 2010; Hamdouch, Demaziere, and Banovac 2017).

SMSTs as well as special cases such as small island communities increasingly represent

an important spatial type. As spatial inequalities are increasing, these small towns/communities play an important role in linking core and periphery. Yet there has not been much scholarly attention on entrepreneurial dynamics and questions around their specific nature. While geographers and planners have analyzed rural and mountain communities in terms of their entrepreneurial potential (Anderson 2000; Baumgartner, Pütz, and Seidl 2013; Carter 1998; Mayer and Meili 2016), they have largely missed to focus on small towns/communities. Two special sessions at recent conferences (AAG, EUGEO) were devoted to the topic of entrepreneurship and SMSTs/communities.

Aim and scope of the special issue

The goal of the planned special issue is (a) to highlight cutting-edge research in the field of entrepreneurship and SMSTs/communities, and (b) to reflect potential implications of the findings for current discussions around regional development policies. The special issue thus will comprise cutting-edge contributions of leading scholars in the field of entrepreneurship, urban and regional development, and geography.

The focus of the papers will be on various aspects of entrepreneurial dynamics in small

communities and in particular on the following:

• The role of entrepreneurs as change agents and the ways they are engaged in the

community

• The role and function of higher education institutions in small towns

• The ways in which small and medium-sized towns respond to challenges such as industrial

decline and change

• Special cases such as small island communities and their unique economic structures

• Other topics

Planned timeline

• November-December 2017: Open call for papers by the journal

• End of February 2018: Papers submitted to guest editors

• End of September 2018: Contributions ready for the journal

Interested authors should submit full papers to both Heike Mayer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

and Yas Motoyama (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 28th February 2018. The documents should be in MSWord files and must contain a cover page with (a) the paper title, (b) author names, (c) titles and affiliations, and (d) email addresses.

For further questions about this issue, please contact

Heike Mayer University of Bern This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Yas Motoyama University of Kansas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dear colleague:

The XXI Applied Economics Meeting will be held at the Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) on June 7-8, 2018. The program will consist of contributed and invited papers. It is hoped that the research presented will represent a broad spectrum of applied economics and econometrics.

All relevant information regarding the Scientific Committee, conference program, venue, registration, accommodation, social events and technical conference support will be made available through the following web site:

http://encuentros.alde.es/en

Prospective contributors are invited to submit electronically the final version of their papers before March 1st, 2018by using the Conference Maker:

https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=EcuentroXXI

A program committee will select the papers for the conference.

We are also very pleased to announce that there will be a new edition of the Young researchers ALdE Prize awarded at the Applied Economics Meeting. This prize is donated by ALdE and amounts 1,000 euros for the best paper; it also includes one Special mention that will have an economic payment of 500 euros. The authors must state their willingness to participate by following the full rules, which are available on the website.

Young researchers are also encouraged to apply for ALdE 2018 Travel Grants, whose full rules are also available at the website.

          Mariam Camarero                                         Josefa García Grade

Head of the Scientific Committee                           Head of the Local Committee                                    

Dear Colleague,

We have the pleasure of inviting you to the 8th Slovak Winter Seminar of  Regional Science that will take place on 14th – 17th March, 2018.
The main objective of the annual Winter Seminar is to bring creative academic debate on actual issues of regional science and practice of regional policy by an attractive environment and relaxed atmosphere.
Information, memories and photos from the past conferences can be found on www.ersa.sk.

One-page abstract should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. until December 31, 2017. Location will be announced shortly. Conference language is English.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: December 31, 2017
Participation fee payment: January 31, 2018
Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2018
Winter Seminar: March 14 - 17, 2018
The participation fee is 85 EUR for RSAI members and 105 EUR for non-RSAI members. The participations fee includes the conference proceedings, 1x lunch, 2x dinner, closing reception with dinner on Friday and coffee breaks.

Instructions for the payment:
Domestic payments:
•       Account number: 0174473633 / 0900
•       Specific symbol: Name of the person for who the payments was made;
Payments from abroad:
•       Bank: Slovenská sporiteľňa, a.s., Blagoevova 9, 851 04 Bratislava
•       IBAN: SK1509000000000174473633
•       SWIFT: GIBASKBX
•       Specific symbol: Name of the person for whom the payments was made

Please feel free to share this invitation among your colleagues and networks.

Looking forward to meet you at the 8th Slovak Winter Seminar of Regional Science!

Yours sincerely,

Winter Seminar´s Organizing Committee
ERSA Slovak Section - Society for Regional Science and Policy
Department of Public Administration and Regional Development
Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava
Dolnozemská cesta 1, 852 35 Bratislava, Slovakia

Dear NECTAR colleagues,

Please find enclosed a call for papers to the workshop organized by NECTAR Cluster 5 (Leisure, Recreation and Tourism) which will be held at the University of Salento, Italy on May 24-25, 2018.

Abstracts should be sent to  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., before January 31, 2018.

Best regards,

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Ana Condeço-Melhorado

NECTAR Secretary