The 3rd International Conference of RSAI on Regional Science and Sustainable Regional Development: Sustainable Development and Policy Decision of Mineral Regions, Beijing, China, 30th March, 2012—1st April, 2012.

The 3rd International Conference of RSAI on Regional Science and Sustainable Regional Development:
Sustainable Development and Policy Decision of Mineral Regions, Beijing, China, 30th March, 2011—1st April, 2012.

Conference Theme: Resource and Environment Capability and Sustainable Development of Regional Economy

Venue: Geosciences International Conference Centre, Beijing, China

Contact Information

Abstract and paper submissions must be made electronically as attachments via:

The EU/US Policy Oriented ATLANTIS Project “PACTS” - “Policy Analysis for Complex Transport Systems” (www.pacts-eu-us.net) will organize a Summer Course, with the theme Policy Analysis of Complex Transport Systems, that will be held in Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal, from June 2nd to June 7th, 2012.

Important Dates

• April 15, 2011: Deadline for Registration and Scholarships Applications;
• Important Notice: the course is organized from Saturday to Thursday.

Contacts

• website: www.pacts-eu-us.net
• e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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52nd European Congress of the Regional Science Association International
4th Central European Regional Science Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS : 10 January - 17 February 2012

Link to the ERSA Congress 2012 in Bratislava:

https://www4.eventsinteractive.com/ersa/cm.esp?id=403012&pageid=_34P0Q1SN0&showpage=login&src=eiscript&cd=484104528

50th JSRSAI Anniversary, 1962-2012

JSRSAI Annual Meeting

Tokyo, Japan, 6th-8th October, 2012

Call for Papers

The 49th Annual Meeting of the Japan Section of the RSAI will be held in Tokyo, Japan from 6th-8th October, 2012. It is a great pleasure well come to you to the JSRSAI Annual meeting and to our 50th Anniversary celebration. The Japan Section of the Regional Science Association International was founded in 1962.We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a paper presentation at the JSRSAI Annual Meeting. Any topic of regional science will be invited.

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49th JSRSAI Annual Meeting

We look forward to welcoming you in Tokyo, Japan.

Prof. Yoshiro HIGANO

President, JSRSAI

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August Lösch Prize 2012

The City of Heidenheim an der Brenz and the August Lösch Society jointly grant the prestigious August Lösch Prize 2012.
The prize was created in 1971 and first awarded in 1972 by the City of Heidenheim in honour of August Lösch (1906-1945), one of the founders of modern Regional Science, and a former citizen of Heidenheim.
The prize is intended to reward outstanding academic research in the field of Regional Science. The prize carries an award of Euro 4000. Joint recipients will share this amount.
The Society invites the submission of research work written in either German or English. The prize will be presented at a regional science conference to be held in Kiel in June 2012. Au-gust Lösch spent most of his academic career at the Kiel Institute, until his early death in 1945.
The winner, or winners, will be selected by an international committee headed by Johannes Bröcker, University of Kiel, Germany.

The deadline for submission is March 15th, 2012.

See invitation of submissions.

For further information please visit.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

TO BE SUBMITTED ONLINE
The RSAI British & Irish Section invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for the 2011 Annual Conference. Suggested themes for the conference are listed below, though quality papers in all areas of regional science are welcome.

• Regional Growth and Productivity

• Differential Regional Impacts of the Current Economic Crisis

• Sustainable Regional Development

• Regional Energy Use and Environmental Impacts

• Patterns of Migration and Implications for Regional Labour Markets

• Spatial Analysis and Geodemographics

• Innovation and Competitiveness

• Regional Policy in Ireland and the UK

• European Regional Policy

• Transport and Infrastructure

• Rural Economies and Communities

The RSAI-BIS is also organizing a DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM for doctoral students in regional science on the day before the annual conference. Details are below.
During the Annual Conference, there will be Special Session for early career/doctoral students with prizes for the best conference paper and the best conference presentation by early career researchers. Early career researchers are those engaged in or having recently completed PhD study in regional science.  Those applying for the best presentation must be at a stage prior to a PhD viva date.  Applicants for the best conference paper must be within 3 years of their PhD viva.  If you are eligible and wish to be considered for these prizes please select these tracks when submitting your abstract online here.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 300 words online at http://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference=156 by February 29th 2012 at the very latest. Authors will be notified of the committee’s decision in April 2012.

DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
For the second time, a Colloquium for Doctoral Students in Regional Science will be organised in conjunction with the Annual Congress of the Regional Science Association International – British and Irish Section. The 2012 Colloquium will take place on August 28th, just before the Annual Conference.

The Colloquium is particularly aimed at Doctoral Students in the first two years of their studies but all are welcome to attend. The Colloquium aims to provide an opportunity for doctoral students in Regional Science to discuss their research and work in progress with a distinguished faculty. Overviews of the current state of the research in regional science will also be included in the programme of the Colloquium. There will also be opportunities for doctoral students to interact informally both with each other and the faculty.

Attendance at the colloquium is free for doctoral students who are attending the annual conference. All participating Doctoral students are also required to register for the Annual Conference and are strongly encouraged to present papers at the conference. They are also eligible to apply for consideration for the early career researchers prizes.
The core faculty proposed for the Colloquium will be composed of leading researchers in the field.

Doctoral students who wish to attend the Colloquium should indicate this when submitting abstracts for the conference or by emailing the Secretary directly at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Participants will be required to submit a Research Summary (approximately 4 pages) by July 30, 2012  which will include a 100 word abstract. The summary should include, for example, the expected contribution, the research question(s) and its location within the literature, a brief overview of related work, the methodological approach, research conducted to date and results so far.
For any further information regarding the conference and/or colloquium please contact the Secretary: Dr Declan Jordan, Secretary RSAI:BIS, Department of Economics, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland.

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web: www.rsai-bis.org

The 11th IRSA International Conference Natural Resources, Environment and People’s Welfare in Decentralized Indonesia

Call for Papers

Potential topics to be discussed in this conference include, but are not limited to:

Extended paper abstract of about 250-400 words should be submitted online via http://irsa2012.irsa.or.id/. Abstract should consist of background, data and methodology, and potential contribution to knowledge. Please provide keywords and JEL number. Abstract should be in English, as also the full paper.

Conference Secretariat:

Contact Person:

Dear colleague,

As a final reminder, I would like to draw your attention again to this years granting of the August Lösch Prize by the city of Heidenheim.

Contributions are requested to be submitted to this mail-address before March 16th.

Link to further information:

http://www.uni-kiel.de/ifr/index.php?id=326&doc=august_loesch_prize

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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:

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