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Elisabete Martins

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Volume 16, Issue 8 , August 2024

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Article Number 100108

Regional disparities, social welfare and economic development in Latin America

The opening and closing of firms before a shock: Lessons on entrepreneurship and regional resilience in Santa Catarina, Brazil

Article Number 100057

Valmir Emil Hoffmann, Luiz Fernando Câmara Viana, Kátia Dalcero, Matheus Schlichting Costa de Almeida

Urban transformations in intermediate cities under the logic of neoliberal urbanism: The case of Monteria, Colombia

Article Number 100058

Ubeimar Martinez, Vasco Barbosa, Ulf Thoene

Impacts of road transport infrastructure investments on the Latin American Integration Route

Article Number 100061

Daniel Centurião, Mateus Boldrine Abrita, Angelo Rondina Neto, Ana Paula Camilo, Rafaella Stradiotto Vignandi, Guilherme Espíndola Junior, Vanessa Weber, Nelagley Marques, Ruberval Franco Maciel

Amenities and crime: What is the association of amenities with crime in urban areas of Cuenca, Ecuador?

Article Number 100062

Paúl Sebastián Loja, Wilmer Mateo Heras, César Andrés Mendoza

Regional structural change in Argentina (1996–2019): Concepts, measurements and unequal trajectories over the business cycle

Article Number 100068

Andrés Niembro, Carla Daniela Calá

The Impact of European Integration in Western Balkan Countries

Globalization and economic growth in Western Balkan countries

Article Number 100031

Marija Radulović, Milan Kostić

Firm resilience as a moderating force for SMEs’ innovation performance: Evidence from an emerging economy perspective

Article Number 100033

Amila Pilav – Velic, Hatidza Jahic, Lamija Krndzija

Absorption capacity and the European integration of the Western Balkans

Article Number 100043

Gazmend Qorraj, Arben Hajrullahu, Driton Qehaja

Western Balkans agriculture and rural development policy in the context of EU integration - The case of Albania and North Macedonia

Article Number 100049

Aleksandra Martinovska Stojcheska, Edvin Zhllima, Ana Kotevska, Drini Imami

Climate Economics

Carbon emissions drivers in Brazilian regional production chains: Value-added and consumption-based approaches

Article Number 100015

Eduardo Rodrigues Sanguinet, Carlos Roberto Azzoni

Challenges in urban-rural food supply chains for disaster resilience in Nepal

Article Number 100073

Namita Poudel, Rajib Shaw

Book Reviews

Innovation for the Masses : How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy

Article Number 100054

Muzamil Farooq, Insha Latief

Elgar companion to regulating AI and big data in emerging economies

Article Number 100066

Kevin Credit

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Volume 16, Issue 7 , July 2024

 

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Article Number 100099

GENERAL ISSUE

Geographies and determinants of rent burden: A regional economic analysis of the U.S. metropolitan landscape

Article Number 100072

Mikhail Samarin, Madhuri Sharma, Nicholas N. Nagle

Socioeconomic and territorial dynamics of bullfighting in contemporary Spain

Article Number 100077

Vicente Royuela, Carlos M. Belloni

Post Covid-19 and Cities: Is it merely short-term or has it changed our cities forever?

Pandemic Vulnerability Index (PVI) and spatial distribution of coronavirus deaths in Brazil: Artificial intelligence with the boosting tree regression method

Article Number 100013

Rogério Pereira, Erick Giovani Sperandio Nascimento

Measuring pandemic preparedness of households in Indian cities: What does NSS data tell us?

Article Number 100042

Debolina Kundu, Biswajit Kar, Tania Debnath

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on students' academic performance and mental health: An overview

Article Number 100046

Shamim Al Aziz Lalin, Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed, Shah Md Atiqul Haq

COVID-19, “risks” and critical reflections on WASH services in Kolkata's slums

Article Number 100051

Aisharya Bhattacharjee, Sudeshna Mitra, Vandana Choudhary, Soumik Das, Priyank Pravin Patel

Impact of COVID-19 on the efficiency of business in Southern Siberian regions: Spatial and sectoral aspects

Article Number 100065

Anastasia Sherubneva

Post-Covid Latin American Economies: countries, regions and cities

Financial development and economic growth: New evidence from Mexican States

Article Number 100028

Miguel A. Flores Segovia, Leonardo E. Torre Cepeda

Location and health in an inequal city: Evidence for Salvador in Brazil

Article Number 100047

Geidson Uilson Seixas Santana, Gervásio Ferreira dos Santos

Exploring the impact of employment policies on wages and employability in the Chilean local labor market

Article Number 100048

Mauricio Oyarzo, Luz María Ferrada

Sustainable Development of Iran and Afghanistan

Why do natural resource-rich economies resist improving the economic complexity?

Article Number 100017

Sakine Owjimehr, Neda Jamshidi

Spatiotemporal analysis of urban development patterns and COVID-19 in Mashhad, Iran

Article Number 100027

Mahdi Shakibamanesh, Sahar Nedae Tousi, Farshid Aram

Book Reviews

Book review – The transport system and transport policy Edited by Bert van Wee, Jan Anne Annema, David Banister, and Baiba Pudāne

Article Number 100002

Patricia C. Melo

The Geography of Academic Entrepreneurship: Spin-offs, Firm Growth and Regional Impact

Article Number 100005

Frank J. Calzonetti

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Friday, 21 June 2024 08:52

NARSC Update

NARSC Update

Call for Papers
North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
November 13-16, 2024 
New Orleans, Louisana

We are pleased to invite you to join us in New Orleans for the 71st North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)!

The conference is co-sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Southern Regional Science Association.

The conference will take place in downtown New Orleans, November 13-16. The conference will cover a wide range of topics in regional science. We welcome submissions from scholars and practitioners in fields such as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography. We also encourage submissions of interdisciplinary research that relates to these topics.

We particularly encourage submissions that address current challenges facing policymakers, and the challenges facing governments, businesses, and society in adapting to pandemic-induced disruptions.

We invite proposals for the following types:

·         Individual papers to be integrated into sessions

·         Proposals for complete sessions of papers

·         Proposals for panel, roundtable, or discussions

·         Student papers for the Graduate-Student-Author Paper Competition

·         Student papers for the Graduate-Student-Led Paper Competition

We have a number of organized sessions devoted to specific topics. If you are interested in participating in one of these sessions, please contact the organizers directly. See the list of special session calls using this link. The list of sessions is updated regularly, so please check back often.

Are you interested in organizing a special session or a series of sessions? If so, please contact the Program Chair, Sandy Dall'erba (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), as soon as possible.

To submit an abstract or a complete session, please use our online submission system. The submission deadline is July 12, 2024. Decisions concerning the acceptance of papers and sessions will be announced in late August. All presenters, including members of panel discussions, discussants, and session chairs, must register for the conference and pay the registration fee in order to attend and present.

If you have questions, here is the contact information:
Program Chair: Sandy Dall'erba (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Overall Arrangements: John Sporing (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

 

NARSC Hotel Reservations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the The New Orleans Marriott (555 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70130).

A special conference room rate of $219 (plus taxes) has been negotiated with the hotel. You can book your room at the conference hotel using this link. By doing so, NARSC will get credit for your booking. 

 

 Inaugural Collection of Papers for Reaching Regions

We are pleased to announce that Reaching Regions, the new peer-reviewed, open access, outreach journal of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), began accepting submissions on May 15, 2024.

As part of the launch of the journal, we are now accepting submissions for an inaugural collection of papers. The submission deadline is August 15, 2024, and we expect to publish this collection later this year.

Reaching Regions will publish contributions on topics of policy relevance to North American regions including original descriptive analyses, data visualizations, non-technical summaries of published academic research, case studies with broader implications, research syntheses, and other items approved by the Editors. All submissions should be written in non-technical language that is accessible to non-academics.

Reaching Regions will be peer-reviewed, open-access, and published fully online. NARSC members can submit papers with no submission or publication fees. Potential contributions can be submitted via the journal’s online submission portal: https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/rreg/submissions/

Please feel free reach out if you want to discuss the suitability of your submission or broader regional science outreach efforts. We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Heather Stephens, West Virginia University (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
John Winters, Iowa State University (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am writing you to deliver news about the recent awards of the RSAI.

  1. The Kohno award (for thanking people for their outstanding service to the RSAI) Committe, this year made up of Prof. Hans Westlund, RSAI President, Chair; Prof. Yoshiro Higano and Prof. Jean-Claude Thill, LRPC members; and Prof. Elizabeth Mack, RSAI Council member, received two very good candidatures for this year's prize. The committee recommended to award Prof. André Torre the 2024 edition of the Kohno award. Congratulations to Prof. Torre on this achievement!
  1. This Spring the RSAI also received four candidatures for the appointment of new RSAI Fellows (distinguished scholars with a proven and recognized research record in the field of regional science). The dedicated committee, made of Prof. Alessandra Faggian (GSSI; Chair), Prof. Genevieve Guliano (USC) and Prof. Jouke Van Dijk (Groningen University), recommended all four candidates for being polled among present Fellows. I am pleased to let you know that three of them passed the election threshold: Prof. Yoshiro Higano (University of Tsukuba), Prof. Eduardo Haddad (USP), and Prof. Andrea Caragliu (Politecnico di Milano), who were appointed Fellows of the Association. Congratulations to all of them!

For both awards, the RSAI Council and the whole Association are thankful to the Committees for their professional service that made it possible to screen candidatures.

Many thanks in advance for your attention,

Kind regards,

Elisabete Martins

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Volume 16, Issue 6 , June 2024

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Article Number 100085

Regional Sustainable Development in the North of Africa

On the non-linear relationship between large shareholders and bank performance: North African banks vs. banks in the Middle East

Article Number 100010

Majdi Karmani, Rim Boussaada, Abdelaziz Hakimi

Financial Technologies for All MENA citizens: Tackling barriers and promoting inclusion

Article Number 100019

Zakaria Elouaourti, Aomar Ibourk

Active Labor Market Policies and instability of their allocations: A changing relationship in the case of regions of Tunisia

Article Number 100026

Marwa Sahnoun, Chokri Abdennadher

Socio-economic inequalities and their impact on children's health and nutrition in Tunisia using generalized entropy measures

Article Number 100034

Anis Ochi, Yosra Saidi

Sustainable Regional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Threshold effect in the relationship between external debt and energy access in sub-Saharan African countries: A dynamic panel threshold specification

Article Number 100024

Taha Zaghdoudi

Rethinking the Regional Development Opportunities and Challenges in Southern Africa

Public debt, investment and economic growth dynamics: Do geographical proximity and spatial spillover effects matter?

Article Number 100059

Bunde Aggrey Otieno

Urban Future in the Global South

External debt crisis & socio-economic fallout: Evidence from the BRICS nations

Article Number 100029

Ajaz Ayoub, Tahir Ahmad Wani, Abid Sultan

Coping with urban flooding: A community portrayal of Bardhhaman Town, West Bengal, India

Article Number 100020

Soumita Banerjee, Gupinath Bhandari

Macroeconomic determinants of organic farming efficiency: Double bootstrap DEA estimates from the Indian states

Article Number 100036

Anup Kumar Yadava

Understanding geographical variability of women's alcohol prevalence in India using spatial regression models: Evidence from national representative survey

Article Number 100040

Subham Roy, Suranjan Majumder, Arghadeep Bose, Indrajit Roy Chowdhury

Industrial clustering and location in India: Sectoral patterns of investments and employments

Article Number 100041

Meghamrita Chakraborty

Regional disparity in energy poverty: A spatial analysis of Odisha

Article Number 100056

Deepak Panda, Rudra P. Pradhan

Transportation, employment and gender norms: Evidence from Indian cities

Article Number 100060

Arun Balachandran, Sonalde Desai

Book Reviews

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity

Article Number 100003

Muzamil Farooq

Diversity and Developmental Science: Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy

Article Number 100004

Rody Putra Sartika, Agus Sugiarto, Reni Marlina

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The Ecuadorian Network of Regional Science (RSAI chapter Ecuador) invite you all to participate in this training course in Spanish about "Open Science and Spatial Econometrics" until June 30th 2024. The course starts in July 1st, 2024. For more information: contact us:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The Ecuadorian Network of Regional Science (RSAI chapter Ecuador) has organized the VI Meeting of Regional Science which be held in the University of Cuenca, in June 13th and 14th, 2024. We are looking forward to heading to Cuenca, Ecuador next week for a great and very productive congress, discussing regional science matters. 

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Volume 16, Issue 5 , May 2024

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Article Number 100074

From Chains to Change: Institutions that navigate socio-economic transformations

From chains to change: Institutions that navigate socio-economic transformations

Article Number 100069

Katarzyna Kopczewska

Traditional slavery institutions and democratization: Insights into intercaste human capital disparities in Sumba Island’s rural areas, Indonesia

Article Number 100011

Umbu Reku Raya, Budy P. Resosudarmo

Investigating the keys to the failure of inter-village government collaboration in developing rural economic potentials in Indonesia

Article Number 100023

Bambang Tri Harsanto, Wahyuningrat Wahyuningrat

An actor-centric approach for defining policy action during cluster development

Article Number 100037

Mads Bruun Ingstrup, Arnault Morisson, Torben Munk Damgaard, Julian Lamberty

Territorial segmentation of key sustainability stakeholders for systemic change: Insights from Hungary

Article Number 100022

Attila Lengyel, Anetta Müller, Zoltán Bács, Sándor Kovács

Money transfers and tax revenue in post-socialist countries: Evidence from the panel ARDL model

Article Number 100016

Ahmadov Vusal, Pashayev Zohrab

Effects of the minimum wage on US county labor markets

Article Number 100008

Dawn Otterby, Andrew Crawley, Todd Gabe

Region's role on recovery and resilience

Region's role on recovery and resilience

Article Number 100070

João-Pedro Ferreira, Luís Cruz

Fiscal redistribution and the narrowing urban–rural income gap

Article Number 100045

Diego Loras-Gimeno, Gonzalo Gómez-Bengoechea, Jorge Díaz-Lanchas

Unveiling the relationship between regional economic resilience and input-output network topology: Evidence from the European Union

Article Number 100018

Elias Giannakis, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Christos T. Papadas

The heterogeneous impact of economic policy uncertainty on export recovery of firms: The role of the regional digital economy

Article Number 100044

Qing Liu, Zihao Li, Yujing Wang

The resilience of Tunisian industrial exports during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from an ARDL approach

Article Number 100009

Walid Gani

The export productivity of Brazil and Portugal by technological intensity: A spatial comparative analysis

Article Number 100014

Luís Lopes, Carlos Carreira, Antonio Carlos Campos

Book Reviews

The Unequal Effects of Globalization

Article Number 100001

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Regional Policy: Theory and Practice, Ugo Fratesi, Routledge, 2023. $170(hbk). ISBN: 978-0-815-36407-8

Article Number 100052

Daniela L. Constantin

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Volume 103, Issue 3 , June 2024

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Article Number 100030

The rise (and fall) of tech clusters

Article Number 100022

Sergei Kichko, Wen-Jung Liang, Chao-Cheng Mai, Jacques-Francois Thisse, Ping Wang

Government reform and innovation performance in China

Article Number 100023

Min Zhang, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Spatial pattern of aid allocation in the early 21st century: Evidence from 38 sub-Saharan African countries

Article Number 100026

Huijoo Shon, Heerae Lee, Booyuel Kim

Economic vulnerability and its effects on conditional convergence clubs in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil

Article Number 100025

Sergiany da Silva Lima, Felipe Luiz Lima de Paulo, Álvaro Robério de Souza Sá, Thais de Lima Moraes, Adler Vinicius Vasconcelos de Menezes

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Monday, 03 June 2024 12:09

ERSA Monthly E-news - May 2024

31 May 2024 - Nr 05/2024

The issue includes:

·     ERSA2024 Congress

·     Internal Communication

·     ERSA Section's Agendas new and Update

·     Journals ongoing calls -reminder

·     Members publish

·     Vacancies

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I hope that you are all well.

Next week marks the start of our Summer School, where we eagerly anticipate welcoming 20 smart young scientists from across Europe. With the outstanding programme of lectures and tutorials, the summer school promises to be a truly enriching experience for all involved.

As for our Congress preparations, we are making excellent progress, particularly with the completion of our Keynote program with Simona Iammarino who has been chosen as the worthy recipient of our esteemed European Prize in Regional Science.

The valuable contributions from the EU and OECD further enhance the depth and quality of our Congress Program. Stay tuned to the Congress website as we continue to shape it - for sure a rich and inspiring event for all regional scientists worldwide!

With best wishes

Roberta Capello, ERSA President

37th ERSA Summer School

Quantitative Methods Addressing Geographical Imbalances: New Techniques, Frameworks and Applications

3-7 June 2024, Oviedo, Spain

20 selected smart Young carreer scientists' to participate in our Summer School next week.

>>> See the Summer School agenda here

LATEST NEWS!

Simona Iammarino to give a keynote Presentation at the Closing Ceremony of the Congress.

>>> See our updated keynote Sessions' programme here

OECD Roundtable confirmed!

The roundtabale scheduled on Thursday 29 August, will focus on The Multi-Level Governance of Disaster-Risk Management.

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Sections' Events

Last reminder on ongoing calls

LAST REMINDER

Spanish Section: AECR International Conference on Regional Science 2024

Sustainability, water and territory: regional strategies for the challenges of the 21st century

16-18 October 2024, Cuenca, Spain

Call for extended abstracts and/or Papers deadline: 14 June 2024

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VII Seminar for New Academic Researchers (SNAR) 2024.

26-27 September 2024, Sevilla, Spain

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Abstract Submission deadline: 10 June 2024

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MRTT XXII Annual Meeting

20 years in the European Union: Catching up, territorial policy and inequalities

17-18 October 2024, Szeged, Hungary

Deadline for session proposals: 10 June 2024

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Journals - new issue

Review of Regional Research 

Call for Papers – Special Issue: “Infrastructure Projects in the Global South and their unintended consequences”

Guest Editors: Javier Revilla Diez, Peter Dannenberg, Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2024

More on all ongoing journals' calls

ERSA-RSAI Members Publish

CLUSTERS IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

Japanese and European Perspectives

Editors:

Luciana Lazzeretti, University of Florence, Italy; Tamane Ozeki, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan; Silvia Rita Sedita

University of Padova, Italy; Francesco Capone, University of Florence, Italy

Edward Elgar 2024

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New publications to share?

Your are member of the RSAI-ERSA Community and you have recently published a book, grasp this opportunity to inform us about it. We are looking for

· Books published in 2024

· Preferably written in English 

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Vacancies

·     8 fully funded PhD positions in Economics, Analytics and Decision Sciences (EADS) at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Application deadline: 21st June 2024 at 12.59pm CEST

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