CONFERENCE TITLE: Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy

CONFERENCE DATES: August 16, 2012 – August 18, 2012

We would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the RCEF 2012 conference “Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy”.

The conference will be held at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance (RCEF) is a biennial conference series that alternates between Italy and Canada, but with a different focus each time. This year’s theme will draw researchers from urban economics, with a micro focus on long run development, trade, and the environment, and from international macroeconomics with a focus on business cycles, financial markets, and monetary policy. Intersecting these two fields will be researchers on public policy, that is, economists who study the levers that national governments typically wield: taxes, transfers, education, and labor mobility (migration and immigration). We also invite papers in other areas of economics, including general equilibrium, industrial organization, and quantitative methods.

The conference is organized by Canadian and Italian economists under the sponsorship of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) but invites scientific contributions from all over the world. Authors should submit an extended abstract of up to 500 words. Please include with the submission JEL classification codes for the paper, keywords as well as JEL classification codes of the author(s) specialization field(s). Complete papers may be submitted but the extended abstract is required. In case of more than one author, please note the corresponding author. The submissions should be sent in PDF format to the address provided below.

Proposals for sessions, consisting of three papers, are particularly welcome. If you are interested in submitting a session please send the session topic, paper titles and names of authors and arrange for the abstracts to be sent to the address provided below.

Student submissions. We welcome paper submissions from graduate students. The registration fee will be waived for Canadian students whose papers are accepted.

The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2012. Authors will be notified by April 22, 2012 whether their papers have been accepted.

Fees. There are no submission fees. The registration fee for the conference is

Students                                                     CAD$50

RCEA Senior Fellows and Fellows                  CAD$140

Others                                                        CAD$200

Late Fee                                                      CAD$280

The late fee will be applied to all registrations received after May 14, 2012.

The fees include HST and all meals at the conference site, including (except for students) a reception on August 16 and a banquet dinner on August 17.

To submit a paper please use the conference website www.rcef.ca

Questions about the conference should be addressed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

PLENARY SPEAKERS include

Ed Glaeser, Harvard University

Phil Oreopoulos, University of Toronto

Will Strange, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

OTHER INVITED SPEAKERS include

Werner Antweiler, University of British Columbia and RCEA

David Card, University of California

Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank-New York

Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto and RCEA

Gabriele Fiorentini, University of Florence and RCEA

Galina Hale, Federal Reserve Board-San Francisco

Luca Lambertini, University of Bologna and RCEA

Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario and RCEA

Megan Macgarvie, Boston University

Enrico Moretti, University of California

Petra Moser, Stanford

Giovanni Peri, UC-Davis

Diego Puga, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies

Matthew Turner, University of Toronto

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) (www.rcfea.org), the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis in Canada (www.rcea-canada.org), and Review of Economic Analysis (www.rofea.org).

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

* Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

* Canadian Labour Market and Skills Research Network (CLSRN)

* CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity, University of Western Ontario

* Department of Economics, University of Toronto

* Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis in Canada

* School for Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto

* Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, University of Toronto

* Cities Centre, University of Toronto

* Italian Cultural Institute

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Dwayne Benjamin, (Co-chair of the Scientific Committee), University of Toronto and RCEA

Gianluca Clementi, New York University and RCEA

Kunal Dasgupta, University of Toronto

Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto and RCEA

Jerzy (Jurek) D. Konieczny, Wilfrid Laurier University and RCEA

Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde and RCEA

Angelo Melino, (Co-chair of the Scientific Committee), University of Toronto and RCEA

John Maheu, University of Toronto and RCEA

Peter Morrow, University of Toronto

Gianluigi Pelloni, University of Bologna and RCEA

Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia

Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph and RCEA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dwayne Benjamin, (Organizing Committee co-chair) University of Toronto and RCEA

Jerzy (Jurek) D. Konieczny, Wilfrid Laurier University and RCEA

Angelo Melino, (Organizing Committee co-chair) University of Toronto and RCEA

Gianluigi Pelloni, University of Bologna and RCEA

CALL FOR PAPERS

APPLIED RESEARCH AND MODELING ADVANCES ON ACCESSIBILITY IN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT

JOINT MEETING

26–27 OCTOBER 2012, Coimbra, Portugal

This joint meeting on “Applied Research and Modeling Advances on Accessibility in Spatial Development” aims to gather interest in the areas of Spatial Econometrics, Accessibility and Spatial Development. It also aims to promote the link between Spanish and Portuguese in these research issues.

The research group Gaec (Grupo de Análisis Económico Cuantitativo) is organizing the 5th Seminar of Spatial Econometrics in honor of Doctor J.H.P. Paelinck, in Coimbra (Portugal). The workshop aims to provide a forum for debate between young and consolidated researchers and it is open to both theoretical and applied papers which deal explicitly with questions of spatial modeling and econometrics.

The 2012 Jean Paelinck Seminar is organized together with the NECTAR-Cluster 6 Meeting on accessibility. NECTAR (Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research) is a Europe-based scientific association with a network culture. The primary objective is to foster research collaboration and exchange of information between experts in the field of transport, communication and mobility from all European countries and the rest of the world.

Considering the objectives of this joint meeting, the main thematic areas will be the following:

• Accessibility and Transport Planning
• Social and Cohesion Issues
• New Issues in Accessibility
• Accessibility, Land Use and Urban Planning
• Spatial Econometric Modeling
• Spatial Econometric Applications in Transport and Accessibility Studies

The authors should indicate in which type of session (Paelinck/NECTAR) they want to be included, also taking into account the six thematic areas above mentioned. The Scientific Committee will proceed with the final allocation according to the papers received and selected.

The workshop is structured on a series of invited lectures and open sessions. In this light, the received contributions will be selected by the Scientific Committee.

Organizing Committee:

Scientific Committee:

Registration fee

Non NECTAR Members: The fee is 150€, including (1) conference dinner, (2) lunches and (3) coffe breaks.

NECTAR Members will not pay this fee (since they will pay a fee through NECTAR membership). Please visit NECTAR’s website at http://www.nectar-eu.org for further information.

Payments should be made to ACIV – Assoc.Des.Eng.Civil (see details bellow). After sending the proof of payment to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., a receipt will be provided.

For Portuguese:

NIB 0035.0623.00000001903.10

For non Portuguese:

Important dates:

• Deadline for abstract submission: 10 July 2012.
• Decision on the acceptance: 20 July 2012.
• Deadline for full paper submission and registration: 22 September 2012.

Please submit your abstract with a minimal amount of formatting, i.e. no caps, bold or italics.

Abstracts should contain a maximum of 250 words.

Please include the names, affiliations and e-mail addresses of the authors in the file.

Send your abstract as a Word or plain-text attachment to:

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

1st Ibero- American Congress on Regional Development:

Global Standing and Strategies

and to the

17°     National Meeting on Regional Development in Mexico, AMECIDER 2012

 Mexico City

MEXICO

September 3-6, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

I. JUSTIFICATION AND AIMS

1. As Ibero-Americans, and especially as Latin Americans, we are very concerned about the rapid pace of negative and positive changes the world is witnessing in the process of globalization and in the shifting role of its regions and supra regions. Such concern includes the nature of the crisis that exploded in September 2008. Indeed, it directly hit the USA, but is expanding throughout the globe. Furthermore, there are other sources of general worry such as environmental pollution, natural and social disasters, as well as deep social inequalities, massive migrations, terrorism of all kinds, unemployed youth, etc.

2. As Latin Americans who share a large set of values, we wish to gather and start a process of deep thinking in the reactivation of our identity and knowledge as a large region of the planet.  We belong to a territory of people that needs to have a voice and say, and a strategy of its own, in the context of the world scenario.

3. On these issues we would like to confront ourselves, our history, and our knowledge, with the range of alternatives that the world can present to us. In our Congress, we wish to invite not only Ibero-Americans, but also European, Asian and North American colleagues to mutually share our views and to foster the discussion regarding our situation in the global era.

4. Our expectations are that the present Congress will take place on a regular basis every two years (even years, i.e., 2014, 2016, etc). It shall be organized by one of the Ibero-American sections of the RSAI with the help of RSAmericas and, of course, with the support –formal or informal- of AMECIDER. Thus, it may become a good way for Latin American sections to maintain close contact and we also hope to strongly contribute to the creation of new RSAI sections in the countries lacking them. However, there is also a huge potential to enlarge the overall presence of regional science in the continent. An event like this one could be prove a great stimulus in this regards.

In accordance with the above, we launch the following CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Mexican Association of Sciences for Regional Development (AMECIDER)

and

The Regional Science Association International (RSAI)

call scholars, students, public officers, entrepreneurs, civic and political organizations, and public in general interested in regional development issues, to the

1st Ibero- American Congress on Regional Development:

Global Standing and Strategies

and to the

17°     National Meeting on Regional Development in Mexico, AMECIDER 2012

Mexico City

MEXICO

September 3-6, 2012

II. GENERAL APPROACH AND PROFILE

A. GENERAL APPROACH

It is of the utmost importance that we approach the idea of the present congress as the starting point of a series of congresses to be generated by this initiative. It should be flexible and adapted according to each specific circumstance. Yet its general approach is to be kept in order to really get deep-thinking into its key aims. Namely: (1) the standing of Ibero- America (regions and macro region) in the world, (2) the reactivation of our specificities and identities, (3) the pondering of medium and long term roles of its regions and the macro region in the era of globalization, (4) the establishment of a broad strategy for our macro and micro regions to a more effective role in the world context (economic, social, political and cultural).

B. GENERAL PROFILE

The general profile will be given by focalizing and connecting all themes and approaches under strategic viewpoints. Such emphasis will be placed in all papers on one or more of the following five aspects and three perspectives:

a. Emphases:

1. Open macro regional or sub national approaches

2. Synthetic approaches supported by data and case studies preferred to purely analytical ones

3. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches

4. Bottom-up approaches (social networks, civic organizations, popular movements)

5. Approaches that crisscross East/West and South/North relations

b. Perspectives:

All five points suppose an explicit effort to be more directly connected with:

1. Public policies,

2. Tradition and/or knowledge innovation,

3. The determination to develop –and/or adapt- theories, methodologies and concepts more suited with Ibero-American realities.

It should be clear that the General Approach and Profile (A and B) are, together with quality, the main criteria for accepting papers in any of the Theme Subjects.

III. PLENARY PANELS (through international panellists especially invited for the purpose)

1. Scope and significance of Ibero-American region(s)

2. Standing of Ibero-America in the world context

3. Ibero-American specificities: basic traits, challenges and potentials of the region(s)

4. Long, medium and short term strategies for Ibero-America and its regions

IV. THEME SUBJECTS AND SPECIAL FORA

A. THEME SUBJECTS (open to all accepted paper participants)

1. Ibero-American theories, methodologies and concepts for regional analysis in the face of globalization and the crisis

2. Regional blocs and regional agreements

3. Strategic potentials and opportunities for development

4. Biodiversity, energy types, and sustainable development

5. Finance and regional policy

6. Economic sectors and land use renewal

7. Urbanization and regional development

8. Population, poverty, and regional inequality

9. Democracy, social organization and politics

10. Technological innovation and endogenous development

11. Social constructions, history, and cultural, educational and gender diversity

B. SPECIAL FORA

1. Forum for dialogue between postgraduate programs linked to regional development.

- Addressed to postgraduate program coordinators, wishing to share and discuss their curricular programs, teaching, research lines and operational academic problems, as well as the impact on society.

- For more information, please write to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2. Call for undergraduate students to participate in teams (maximum three students per team) in the 5th ebate-forum: “SALVADOR RODRIGUEZ Y RODRIGUEZ”. The aim is to foster research and academic debate among students.

- Participation is through collective essays dealing with the local, national or international perspective, referring to any of the Theme Subjects of the congress.

- The winning team will receive the “SALVADOR RODRIGUEZ” award.

- For participation requirements see AMECIDER’s web site.

V. TECHNICAL FORMALITIES, SPECIFICATIONS, FEES, DEADLINES AND PUBLICATIONS *1

A. Formalities

-      The maximum number of authors per paper is two. Any author may not register more than two papers,

-      Papers may be submitted in Spanish, English or Portuguese,

-      The first page of the paper should contain the following identification information: title, thematic axis, name (s) of author (s), the utilized working method (either completed research or essay in progress). Font: Arial 11 points, 1.5 interlined space,

-      The second sheet of paper will contain: title and abstract (maximum of 300 words, ended with at least three key words in the three accepted languages; font: Arial 11 points and 1.5 interlines space. Footnotes must include the following information of the author (s): academic degrees, institution (s) of affiliation, telephone and e-mail, in font: Arial 9 points, single and justified interlined space,

-      The extension of the paper will be between 15 and 20 pages, charts, schemes and maps included,

-      The paper (s) must be products of research and must not be published anywhere before.

B. Technical Specifications

-      Use Word processor, which saves files with extension .doc

-      Margins of 2.5 cm., without headers or frames

-      All texts written in Arial font

-      No special spaces between paragraphs

-      The full text will be justified to 11 points, using upper and lower case letters, no indentation and interlined of 1.5 cm., except the following cases:

-      References in Harvard style *2

-      The organizers will not check nor accept papers in the following cases:

All papers must be sent only to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., with the special attention to the Academic Commission, who will review the received papers and will decide on the acceptances for them to be part of the Congress and Meeting programmes.

*1.- There is a file example in the link: http://www.amecider.org.mx/modelo-de-ponencia, which you may unload so as you can get the necessary support for it.

*2.- Please see: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estilo_Harvard_de_citas

C. Important Dates

-      The reception of papers will be at the moment of the publication of this Call up to May the 14th, 2012.There will not be any date extension.

-      The acceptance or not acceptance letters, as well as the information on the programme of participation will be sent to the authors not later than June the 15th, 2012.

-      The preliminary academic programme will be published in our Web site on July the 1st, 2012.

D. Publications

All accepted papers are refereed and they will be presented and published in an electronic book with ISBN.

E. Registration fees

The registration fees are individuals for every participant (either authors, or attendants) and they cover the right to obtain a copy of the working papers, academic and socio-cultural events and diplomas of participation. There will not be any of them for those who not pay the fees.

The registration fees have three modes of themselves according to the following times and payment procedures:

*3.- Those AMECIDER’s members with their fees updated will be liable of a 20% discount in the registration fees.

*4.- In the case of payments or transference from abroad, the transaction will be in Mexican Pesos at the exchange rate at the moment of the payment. There will be discounts of 20% for the participants coming from Central America and The Caribbean countries.

Payment procedure:

-      Please do a bank deposit to the account number: 00161646540 of BANCOMER, payable to the: Asociación Mexicana de Ciencias para el Desarrollo Regional, A. C., with your name (s) as a reference.

-      Send by E-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) a digital image of such a deposit that includes the name (s) you wish to enroll.

-      For the case of undergraduated students, they must include in their deposit copy attached, their up-to-date ID copy from the school where they are enrolled. The original will be required at the moment of their registration in the very event.

-      For the cases of electronic transferences of payments, please do it to the same account number (00161646540 of BANCOMER), CLABE: 012 180 00161646540 9, adding your name and e-mail address as a reference for your immediate receive notice.

-      Deliver personally your original payment deposit or a print of your electronic transference at the registry desk in the moment of the Congress/Meeting.

-      The direct payment in the Registry Desk will be only in cash and in Mexican Pesos

-      The official invoices will be sent at request at the Registry Desk in the days of the academic event. They will be sent by e-mail not later than one week after the Congress/Meeting finishes. There will not be invoicing in the days of the academic event.

VI. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL AND ACADEMIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

A. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL

It is formed by the presidents or directors of each one of the convening and co-convening organizations (or the persons they delegate), plus the RSAI President and its immediate Past President.

B. EXECUTIVE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

It is designated by the AMECIDER.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Ø  AMECIDER’s web page: www.amecider.org.mx

Ø AMECIDER’s office: Phone number: +52 (0155) 56230100, Ext. 42449 (Mr. Ivan Sanchez); and e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CO-CONVENING INSTITUTIONS

Argentinean Society of Regional Economics (SAER)

Brazilian Association of Regional Science (ABCR)

Chilean Society of Regional Studies (SOCHER)

Colombian Association of Regional Studies (ASCER)

Coordination of Humanities (CH-UNAM)

Institute of Economic Research (IIEc-UNAM)

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR)

Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM-UNAM)

Regional Science Association of America (RSAmericas)

Spanish Association of Regional Science (AECR)

Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL)

University Programme of City Studies (PUEC-UNAM)

9TH WORLD CONGRESS OF REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

MAY 9-12, 2012 – TIMISOARA, ROMANIA

Provisional program now available!

Download the provisional program now:  Provisional Programme RSAI 2012 (463.92 kB 2012-04-16 12:40:53)

International Conference on Regional Science

the Challenge of Regional Development in a world of changing hegemonies: Knowledge, competitiveness and austerity

XXXVIII Meeting of Regional Studies - AECR

Bilbao / 22 - 23 noviembre de 2012

The Spanish Association of Regional Science has been promoting the analysis of regional problems in Spain from multiple perspectives for many decades. An important reference is the Regional Studies Meeting (RER), that will take place in Bilbao in 2012, organised by the Basque Country and Navarra Association of Regional Science, the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and Deusto Business School. The RER is a specialized professional forum, open to the discussion of all regional topics that are of concern to researchers and regional policy makers. The papers to be presented may cover various subjects and may be tackled from different approaches cultivated by the scientific areas in which the participants do research: Economics, Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Demography, Urban and Regional Planning, Environment, etc.

The slogan of the XXXVIII Meeting is “The Challenge of Regional Development in a world of changing hegemonies: Knowledge, competitiveness and austerity”. The regional theme is associated to the new hegemonies that have arisen in these years and that have generated a changing environment that implies a transfer of the centrality from a world run and conditioned by a Western view, towards new hegemonies that present different ways of socially ruling the system, particular social and power relations, and a different concept of competitiveness. In this context, regions may respond either by searching a more competitive integration in global markets or by requesting at national or even European level the opening of new scenarios where some protectionist policies may be enhanced. As part of the analysis of key factors in this new landscape, on one hand, the role of universities in regional development as one of the main sources for the generation of knowledge and its application to the territories’ productive reality will be analysed. On the other hand, the future of the welfare state in the current recessive context that calls for a reconsideration of public policies based on the principles of austerity and effective and efficient use of resources will also be considered.

THEMATIC AREAS
1. Business, Innovation and Competitiveness
2. Energy, Sustainability, Environment and Natural Resources
3. Government and regional planning, housing, public services and taxation
4. Growth, regional convergence and cohesion policies
5. Industrial Districts, Territorial Clusters and industrial policy
6. Knowledge society, universities and research
7. Methods of Regional Analysis
8. Population and migration and labor market
9. Tourism
10. Transport, Mobility and Infrastructure
11. Urban and municipal development

SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Deadline Abstracts: June 20
Abstracts Acceptance: July 15
Deadline Full Papers: August 30
Final Acceptance: October 15

REGISTRATION DEADLINES
Ordinary Term Payment: October 23
Extraordinary Term Payment: November 23

WEBPAGE
www.reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org

VENUE
La Comercial - Deusto Business School
Deusto University
Avenida de las Universidades, 24
48007 Bilbao

University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Auditorium UPV/EHU
Avda. Abandoibarra, 3
48009 BILBAO

TECHNICAL SECRETARY
Conxita Rodríguez i Izquierdo
Secretaria AECR
C/ Viladomat, 321 entresuelo
08029 Barcelona
Teléfono y Fax: + 34 93 310 11 12
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Download Flyer (PDF Document)

DEAR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE AMECIDER AND INTERESTED IN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

As a tradition to all AMECIDER´s Members, after 17 years, it is of great satisfaction for us, as representatives to the Executive Committee of this Association to have launched the complete call for papers of the 1st Ibero-American Congress on Regional Development: Global Standing and Strategies, in conjunction with the 17° National Meeting on Regional Development in Mexico, AMECIDER 2012; both events that will take place on the 3rd to 6th September this year 2012, in Mexico City, D.F.

The complete document is available and may be consulted in the webpage of the AMECIDER:

http://www.amecider.org.mx/Convocatoria-General-AMECIDER-2012

The deadline for register your presentation is on May the 14, 2012.

It is important to emphasize that participation in the seventeenth meeting will be in accordance with all the bases laid down in the General call appearing also available in a PDF version within the same web site of the Association. In order for you to lighten the download of the messages and further consultation of them, it is advised to make such search separated on the downloadable PDF file.

With the most vivid interest for your participation in this broad forum of discussion and their best wishes of viable and essential proposals for the successful achievement of ours country's much-needed regional and local development, we give you our most warm welcome to you.

Sincerely

"The Region Today"

Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, April 23 2012

DR. ADOLFO SANCHEZ ALMANZA

PRESIDENT OF THE AMECIDER

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

In establishing the New Frontiers Groups programme, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) intends to develop a flexible structure with which it can respond rapidly to cutting-edge developments in science and research, which are largely driven by young researchers.
The NFG programme aims at investigator-driven innovative research in order to promote promising academic careers and to further strengthen the Academy`s research portfolio.
The OeAW invites applications from highly talented scientists and scholars at early stages of their careers to establish a New Frontiers Group under the auspices of the OeAW.

For further information please consult the OeAW Website http://www.oeaw.ac.at/nfg/.

Applications can be send no later than 15^th of July 2012 (Date post mark), please distribute the information in your sphere of action.

Call for papers

2012 BARCELONA WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS
Innovation and Regional Economic Performance
Barcelona, October 18th-19th 2012
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Barcelona

AQR-IREA will host the Workshop on Innovation and Regional Economic Performance on October 18th-19th 2012 in Barcelona. The aim of this workshop is to bring together cuttingedge research papers on innovation and knowledge diffusion, and their linkages with regional economic performance. Particular attention will be paid to papers dealing with the mechanisms and actors of innovation and knowledge diffusion (knowledge spillovers, networks, skilled labour mobility, university-industry linkages).
 

Keynote speakers
Karen Maguire (Regional Innovation Unit, OECD)
Philip McCann (University of Groningen)

Submission

Although the Workshop will focus on empirical papers, theoretical studies are also welcome. The accepted papers (around 8) will be presented in plenary sessions that will complement the two keynote speakers’ presentations. Papers should be sent in pdf format to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before June 11th, 2012. Detailed abstracts will also be considered, but full papers will be favoured. Travel and accommodation costs for successful papers will be covered by the organisers.

Deadline for papers submission: June 11th 2012
Deadline for acceptance of papers: July 2nd 2012
Preliminary programme: July 13th 2012
Final programme: September 21st 2012

Organising Committee
Enrique López-Bazo, Ernest Miguélez, Rosina Moreno, Sandra Nieto, Raül Ramos and Jordi Suriñach.

Scientific Committee
Corinne Autant-Bernard, David Audretsch, Pablo d’Este, Simona Ianmarino, Francesco Lissoni,
Enrique-López-Bazo, Ernest Miguélez, Rosina Moreno, Frank van Oort, Attila Varga.

Further information at http://www.pcb.ub.es/aqr/workshop2012 or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Call for Papers – NARSC 2012 in Ottawa, Canada, November 7th – 10th, 2012

Join us in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for the 59th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and hosted by the Canadian Regional Science Association (CRSA).  The conference will be held at the Ottawa Westin, November 7th – 10th, 2012.  You can learn more about the conference, submit an abstract, and register for the conference and workshops at the NARSC Website at:

http://www.narsc.org/

Click on the link to the conference section for general information on the conference.  To register for the conference or submit an abstract/session online you must first login to the User Area. If you attended a NARSC conference over the past couple of years or are a member of a North American regional science organization, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to enter your provided username and password.  Otherwise, when you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address so we can check if you are already in our database. If you are in our database, your username and password will be e-mailed to you so you can login. If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

Once logged, you can change your password, update your profile, submit an abstract/session, register for the conference, and check the status of your registration.  You will be able come to your account in the User Area subsequently using your valid username and password.  In case you forget your password, just contact technical support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your e-mail address and your password will be e-mailed to you so you can login.

Individual papers, posters, and sessions must be submitted online in the abstract submission section of the Website between now and August 1, 2012. The conference registration section is open and allows secure electronic financial transactions. We will continue to host poster sessions, and have an expanded set of pre-conference workshops, which will be held November 7th. Be sure to consult the conference website for additional information and details.

Conference organizers welcome individual papers and organized sessions relating to a wide variety of topics inclusive within the diverse realm of regional science.  We are an international scholarly organization that focuses on regional analysis, ranging from urban and spatial theory to applied problems in regional development, sustainability, environmental management, and rural land use.  We are an interdisciplinary association, with members representing fields as diverse as economics, agricultural economics,
public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography.  The annual North American RSAI conference is the premier regional science meeting in North America and attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world.  

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Ottawa Westin at a rate of $203 per night (Canadian).  The Westin is extending the conference rate for those who wish to spend extra time in Ottawa, subject to availability.

If you have questions, here is contact information:
Local arrangements:
Bruce Newbold 1-905-525-9140 x27948; Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mark Brown, 1-613-951-7292; E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Program Chair:
Antonio Páez, 1-905-525-9140 x24082; E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Overall Arrangements
Jean-Claude Thill, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


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Call for papers
2012 BARCELONA WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS
Innovation and Regional Economic Performance
Barcelona, October 18th-19th 2012
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Barcelona
Deadline for submissions of papers postponed to June 26th 2012

AQR-IREA will host the Workshop on Innovation and Regional Economic Performance on October 18th-19th 2012 in Barcelona. The aim of this workshop is to bring together cuttingedge research papers on innovation and knowledge diffusion, and their linkages with regional economic performance. Particular attention will be paid to papers dealing with the mechanisms and actors of innovation and knowledge diffusion (knowledge spillovers, networks, skilled labour mobility, university-industry linkages).

Keynote speakers
Karen Maguire (Regional Innovation Unit, OECD)
Philip McCann (University of Groningen)

Submission
Although the Workshop will focus on empirical papers, theoretical studies are also welcome.
The accepted papers (around 8) will be presented in plenary sessions that will complement the two keynote speakers’ presentations. Papers should be sent in pdf format to

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before June 26h, 2012. Detailed abstracts will also be considered, but full papers will be favoured. Travel and accommodation costs for successful papers will be covered by the organisers.

Deadline for paper submission (postponed): June 26th 2012
Deadline for acceptance of papers: July 2nd 2012
Preliminary programme: July 13th 2012
Final programme: September 21st 2012

Organising Committee
Enrique López-Bazo, Ernest Miguélez, Rosina Moreno, Sandra Nieto, Raül Ramos and Jordi Suriñach.

Scientific Committee
Corinne Autant-Bernard, David Audretsch, Pablo d’Este, Simona Ianmarino, Francesco Lissoni, Enrique-López-Bazo, Ernest Miguélez, Rosina Moreno, Frank van Oort, Attila Varga.

Further information at http://www.pcb.ub.es/aqr/workshop2012 or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.