CALL FOR PAPERS

International Geographical Union Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces and Regional Science Association International

Mini conference

“Globalisation and New Patterns of Services Sector Driven Growth”

June 19-20, 2014
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam

Organizers: Niels Beerepoot, Bart Lambregts, and Jana Kleibert (University of Amsterdam)

Conference Overview
The IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces is partnering with the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) for a joint scientific event aimed at extending international research and scholarship in geography, promoting international collaboration in research activity and the dissemination of research findings, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge, experience and expertise between countries and institutions (http://uac.utoledo.edu/igu_commission/ ). Via the organisation of mini conferences the IGU committee and RSAI aims to bring together small groups of scholars for in-depth discussion on some of the latest issues in the field of economic geography.

The 2014 Amsterdam IGU/RSAI mini conference aims to stimulate discussions on how recent changes in the ways business processes are organized have been reshaping the international division of labour. After drastic shifts in the (spatial) organization of the production of goods, increasingly fierce competition forces firms look critically at how the production of services is organized. Digitization and advances in information and communication technologies enable firms to unbundle service business processes, and the increased global availability of sufficiently skilled labour allows for the relocation of particular business processes around the globe, leading to a new geography of services production. As a result, various Southern cities now command a prominent role as service delivery hubs for the global market. A growing, export-oriented service sector here is commonly understood to generate new employment opportunities for an increasingly well-educated labour force. It is also associated with the formation of a new middle class. Learning fast, multinational services producing enterprises from the global South rapidly expand their global presence, thereby presenting new competition to their Western peers. Simultaneously, patterns are further complicated by the tendency towards regionalization of value chains with production moving back to the firms’ regions of origin.

This conference welcomes contributions that deal with the drivers and the local outcomes (both in the global North and South) of the international reconfiguration of services production. More in particular we invite papers that address the following issues in different empirical and geographical contexts:
• Service sector growth and regional development
• Global production networks in service delivery
• New geographies of service work
• Local labour market impacts of the globalization of services production
• Emergence of Southern cities as hubs for service delivery
• Service work and the rise of a new middle class in developing countries
• The rise of non-Western multinationals in service delivery
• Service outsourcing and offshoring (and re-shoring)
• Linkages and comparisons between the globalization of manufacturing and services production

Abstracts
Abstracts (300 words max.) should be submitted by January 31 2014 to Niels Beerepoot: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Papers
Written papers submitted in advance will be circulated among the participants and considered for publication in an edited volume or special issue.

Registration
Deadline for registration is April 1, 2014.

Conference Package
Includes conference dinner, one lunch and conference materials: 75 euro.
A limited number of travel subsidies (of $250,- and $500,-) are available for PhD researchers. Please indicate your interest when submitting your abstract.

Location
This seminar is organised by the Geographies of Globalisation research group of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and will take place in one of the venues of the University of Amsterdam in the historic centre of Amsterdam.

Dear NECTAR friends,

Please find enclosed a reminder for the submission of papers to the NECTAR cluster 4 session at at the 10th RSAI World Congress on 27-29 May 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The deadline has been extended to 18 November.

Please note that all enquiries should be directed to the session Organizers, by sending an e-mail

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Best regards,

Knut Sandberg Eriksen

NECTAR Secretary 

In memoriam Piet Rietveld

1952 – 2013

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Piet Rietveld, Professor in Transport Economics and Head of the Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam. Piet passed away, after a short period of illness, on November 1, 2013.

Piet studied econometrics at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (cum laude degree) and received his PhD in economics at VU University Amsterdam. He worked at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Austria) and was research co-ordinator at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga, Indonesia. Since 1990 he was professor in Transport Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam. He was a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (KiM). Furthermore, he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Piet has been Head of the Department of Spatial Economics since 2002. Under his unique and inspiring leadership, the Department has flourished, and has gained and maintained its unique position worldwide in the fields of Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics. As a researcher, Piet has made ground-breaking contributions to these fields, on a wide variety of themes including transport and regional development, valuation, transport pricing, public transport, transport and environment, land-use modelling, and policy assessment. A good impression of his impressive scientific legacy, the scope of themes he was working on, his academic network, and the wide impact of his research, can be obtained from the overview of his work on Google Scholar (link: http://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=qVEsFisAAAAJ&hl=us).

But above all, Piet was dearly beloved by everyone who has had the privilege to work with him, for his wisdom, his warm personality, his gentleness, and his sense of humour. He will be deeply missed.

Piet Rietveld’s funeral will be next Thursday, November 7, in Amsterdam. For practical information on the funeral, you may contact 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..  Condolences can be sent to the following email address: 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..

 http://www.eepsea.net/ccecon2014

Organized by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia of WorldFish (EEPSEA-WorldFish)
in partnership with the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE)

27-28 February 2014, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Southeast Asia is among the most dynamic regions in the world. From a long-term perspective, the economic progress throughout the region has been remarkable, characterized by rapid growth in prosperity and massive reduction in poverty. If this continues, the region’s 600 million population will be one of the wealthiest in the world.

However, climate change threatens this prospect of prosperity. Southeast Asia’s geography, population density, and reliance on natural resource sector make it one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Even today, the region's exposure to weather-related hazards has shown how vulnerable this region is to climate change impacts.

Research on the economics of climate change covering areas -- such as climate change impact assessment, evaluation of adaptation and mitigation options, and modeling impacts of alternative climate change scenarios -- are useful in climate change adaptation and mitigation planning. This conference will allow us to assess the landscape of economics of climate change research in Southeast Asia to better understand existing knowledge and research gaps.

EEPSEA, in partnership with EAAERE, is calling for submission of research papers on climate change in Southeast Asia in the following areas:

1. Climate change adaptation behaviors/strategies/policies
2. Climate change impacts at the macro, regional, local or community level
3. Climate change and ecosystem services
4. Economic modeling of climate change
5. Climate change disaster risk and insurance market in Southeast Asia
6. Climate change mitigation

Selected papers from this conference will be published in a special issue of the Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (EEPS), a journal of the EAAERE. Some of the papers will be selected as contributed chapters in an edited book.

Partial support to attend the conference is available for researchers from the Southeast Asian countries. Request for funding support must be indicated during submission.

How to submit

Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: 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.. Please indicate “EEPSEA Economics of CC Conference” in the subject line.  Only those whose abstracts have been accepted will be notified on 15 December 2013.  For additional queries, please contact Ms. Julienne V. Bariuan, EEPSEA Communication Manager < 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.>.

Attached is the PDF of Call for Papers.

Dear all,

 The new RSAI Newsletter November 2013 can now be found under

 http://regionalscience.org/images/PDF/Newsletter%202013%20November.pdf

Program

Professores

Prof. Dr. Lívia Madureira, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

PhD in Agricultural Economics and Assistant Professor at the University of Trás-os- Montes e Alto Douro. Researcher effective CETRAD Center ( Transdisciplinary Studies for Development). Expert on economic valuation of environmental public goods and externalities. She has participated in interdisciplinary research projects and has extensive experience in European research projects under FP6 and FP7 programs and research networks such as COST E45. Its activities also include teaching in the area of economics and economics and management of the environment and sustainability, guidance of master's and doctoral students, organization and teaching of doctoral seminars and consulting activity in the context of environmental impact studies. She is currently coordinating a study for the Joint Research Centre of the EU in the field of environmental enhancement and two projects with national funding in the areas of economics of ecosystem services and innovation in rural areas.

Prof. Dr. Tomaz Dentinho, University of Azores, Portugal

Tomaz Ponce Dentinho holds a PhD in Regional Economics from the University of Newcastle (1994), and is a lecturer at the University of the Azores. His teaching and research have focused on the topics of regional science, environmental economics and agricultural economics. Coordinates research and postgraduate teaching in Regional Sustainable Development, with projects and works on integrated water management, renewable energy, management and spatial planning, land farming systems, economic valuation of environmental resources and operational models economic - environmental. It has done work on cooperation with Angola, Timor, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Cape Verde. Since 2008, he is president of the Portuguese Association for Regional Development (www.apdr.pt). And since 2011, is the Executive Director of the Regional Science Association International (www.regionalscience.org). Parte inferior do formulário

Applications

You can send your application or request information directly to Tomaz Dentinho, 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., if you do not live in Angola or to Caesar Pakissi, 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., if you live in Angola.

Fee

150US$

Venue

The Higher Institute of Education Sciences (ISCED) of Huambo, Angola

Organization and Sponsors

SEE IN PORTUGUESE (pdf)

We invite formal paper presentations as well as posters (deadline of December 1^st, 2013). Organizers of special session are also welcome. The abstract submission portal is now open, along with the congress registration system. Full information on the venue, abstract submission, registration, schedule of events, accommodation and travel information is posted at  http://www.2014worldcongress.regionalscience.org. Delegates will soon be able to register for workshops and tutorials.

Publication opportunities will be available for papers accepted by the Program Committee. We plan to edits volume in the new book series published by Springer on New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives. All manuscript submitted for possible publication in this series will be subjected to the customary peer-review process. Also, a select number of manuscripts will be invited for publication in the international RSAI Journals Papers in Regional Science andRegional Science Policy and Practice.

Feel free to contact the secretariat of the Congress at 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. for further information. We look forward to welcoming you in the dazzling city of Bangkok in May 2014.

Jean-Claude Thill, RSAI President

Tomaz Dentinho, RSAI Executive Director

Assistant Professor Housing and Real Estate Markets (1,0 fte) (213213)

Organisation

The Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen (RUG) consists of 85 members of staff and focuses on high quality teaching and research in the fields of real estate, economic and cultural geography, spatial planning and demography. The Faculty is responsible for the Bachelor Geography and Planning. The Assistant Professor's research and teaching will be related to two departments in the Faculty.
The Department of Economic Geography has a research agenda which centers on issues like real estate, regional labour markets, regional development, entrepreneurship and innovation. The Department is responsible for the Master of Economic Geography and the Master of Real Estate Studies. The research of the Department of Demography / Population Research Centre is carried out within the broad theme 'Population and Well-Being in Context'. The Department is responsible for the Master Population Studies.

Job description

The Assistant Professor will contribute to research and teaching in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences. The main research focus is on the quantitative analysis of housing and real estate markets, project development and/or financing also in a comparative context between countries, and the behaviour of individuals and households within these markets in the sense of residential mobility and transitions between housing types or tenures. Housing and real estate markets are shaped by the dynamics of where households and firms locate and relocate and relates to issues like population decline, aging, well-being, household formation and dissolution, regional economic development, infrastructure, landscape and environment and real estate markets itself. All these issues are present in the faculty research theme Towards Well-being, Innovation and Spatial Transformation (tWIST) and it is expected that the Assistant Professor contributes to overarching research themes in t(WIST) from the perspective of housing and real estate markets with the explicit goal of stimulating multidisciplinary publications and research proposals.
The Assistant Professor's main teaching task will be in courses in the Master Real Estate Studies and in the Master Population Studies. The Assistant Professor will invest 60% of his/her time in research, and another 40% in teaching.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates who meet the following requirements:

• PhD in Real Estate, Economics, Finance, Economic Geography, or Demography
• publications in international peer-reviewed academic journals in the field of quantitative research on housing
• commitment to excellent teaching
• has a strong drive to share ideas with, and to invest in colleagues and students
• meets the obligatory requirement for the Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO)
• fluent in English; mastering Dutch or willing to learn Dutch.

Competences of an Assistant Professor:

• conceptual ability
• self-reflection
• presentation
• result orientation.
• Conditions of employment

The University of Groningen offers a salary dependent on qualifications and relevant work experience up with a minimum of € 2,919 gross per month (scale 10) to a maximum of € 5,070 gross per month (scale 12) for a full-time position excluding 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus and participation in a pension scheme for employees. Favorable tax agreements may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The conditions of employment comply with the Collective Labour Agreement for the University of Groningen. The full time appointment is temporary for a specified period of three years, the appraisal interview is at the end of the first year.

Starting date: as soon as possible.

The first interviews will take place on 22 November 2013 and 28 November 2013. Selected candidates will receive an invitation after 11 November 2013.

Application
You may apply for this position before 1 November 2013 Dutch local time by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website). Applications must include curriculum vitae, two letters of recommendation, one current working paper, and any available teaching evaluations.

Acquisition is not appreciated.

Information

For information you can contact:

Prof. A.J. van der Vlist, Professor Real Estate, +31 50 3633897,  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.

Prof. C.H. Mulder, Professor Demography, +31 50 3634549,  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.

Assistant Professor of Real Estate (1,0 fte) (213214)

Organisation

The Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen (RUG) consists of 85 members of staff and focuses on high quality teaching and research in the fields of real estate, economic geography, spatial planning and demography. The Faculty is responsible for the Bachelor Geography and Planning.
The Department of Economic Geography has a research agenda which centers on issues like real estate, regional labour markets, regional development, entrepreneurship and innovation. The Department is responsible for the Master of Economic Geography and the Master of Real Estate Studies.

Job description

The Assistant Professor will contribute to research and teaching in real estate finance & economics in the Department of Economic Geography. The post will build on existing expertise with the Department. Current research activities on real estate in the Department include housing, commercial real estate market institutions and land economics. Opportunities for undertaking international research-led collaboration in the Department are excellent. The Assistant Professor's main teaching task will be in the master Real Estate Studies' courses Real Estate Investment and International Real Estate Markets. The Assistant Professor will invest 60% of her/his time in teaching and another 40% in academic research.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates who meet the following requirements:

• PhD in Economics, Economic Geography or Finance
• publications in international peer-reviewed academic journals on real estate finance & economics
• commitment to excellent teaching in real estate
• team player and a strong drive to inspire colleagues and students
• the ability to attract funding for research projects
• meets the obligatory requirement for the Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO)
• fluent in English and willing to learn Dutch.

Competences of an Assistant Professor:

• conceptual ability
• self-reflection
• presentation
• result orientation.
• Conditions of employment

The University of Groningen offers a salary dependent on qualifications and relevant work experience up with a minimum of € 2,919 gross per month (scale 10) to a maximum of € 5,070 gross per month (scale 12) for a full-time position excluding 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus and participation in a pension scheme for employees. Favorable tax agreements may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The conditions of employment comply with the Collective Labour Agreement for the University of Groningen. The full-time appointment of this Assistant Professor is in first instance a temporary position. Given the future retirement of one of the staff members there is a possibility of a permanent appointment after two years at constant business conditions and positive performance reviews.

Starting date: as soon as possible.

The first interviews will take place in the week of 18 November 2013. Selected candidates will receive an invitation after 11 November 2013.

Application
You may apply for this position before 1 November 2013 Dutch local time by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website). Applications must include curriculum vitae, two letters of recommendation, one current working paper, and any available teaching evaluations.

Acquisition is not appreciated.

Information

For information you can contact:

Prof. Arno J. van der Vlist, Professor Real Estate, +31 50 3633897,  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.

Prof. Jouke van Dijk, Chairman of the Department of Economic Geograpy, +31 50 3633897,  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.

13th International Workshop Spatial Econometrics and Statistics
15 and 16 of April 2014

The Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée au Développement (LEAD) and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Toulon organize the 13th edition of the Spatial Econometrics and Statistics Workshop in Toulon, on the 15th and the 16th of April 2014.

The aim of this Workshop is to promote and develop scientific exchange between economists, econometricians, statisticians, mathematicians, urban planners and geographers on spatial econometrics and statistics and on their applications on regional and urban economics. This workshop strongly encourages exchanges between senior and junior researchers as well as Ph.D. students involved in spatial statistics and econometrics.

This 13th edition welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions with methodological advances in spatial econometrics and statistics. A particular emphasis will be given to particular issues and applications in the fields of urban economics, land use and climate or environmental change.

The invited speakers of the Workshop are:
Pr. James LESAGE, Texas State University, USA.
Pr. Raymond FLORAX, Purdue University USA & VU University Amsterdam, Holland.
Pr. Bernard FINGLETON, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

Organizer: Alexandra Schaffar (LEAD, Université de Toulon)

Scientific Committee
G. Arbia (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), C. Baumont (LEG, University of Bourgogne), M. Catin (LEAD, University of Toulon), R. Chakir (AgroParisTech), N. Debarsy (LEO, University of Orléans), M. Dimou (LEAD, University of Toulon), C. Ertur (LEO, University of Orléans), J. Le Gallo (CRESE, University of Franche-Comté), J. Mutl (EBS Business School, Frankfurt), R. Guillain (University of Bourgogne), A. Pirotte (ERMES, University of Panthéon-Assas), M. Pfaffermayr (University of Innsbruck, Austria), C. Thomas–Agnan (GREMAQ, University of Toulouse).

Organisation Commitee (LEAD, Université de Toulon)
D. Brécard, M. Brunetto, M. Catin, M. Dimou, N. Péridy, C. Van Huffel

Submissions
Completed papers or long abstracts (6 pages) should be submitted by uploading electronically, in pdf format, to the following address: http://sew2014.univ-tln.fr/

Submission deadline: 15th of January 2014.

Notification of acceptance of papers: 15th of February 2014

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