Dear all, 

I hope this email finds you well. I am excited to share some information regarding the upcoming "7th CEnSE Urban and Regional Economics Workshop on: Social Interactions in Regions" taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden from October 25th to 27th, 2023.

This workshop will feature three distinguished keynote speakers, whose names are listed below. In addition to the keynote presentations, there will be individual paper sessions where each paper will be assigned a discussant. We kindly request all presenters and participants to also serve as discussants, fostering constructive discussions in an interactive setting. To ensure a focused and engaging environment, there will be no parallel sessions, leading to a limited number of participants. This approach allows for in-depth interactions among attendees.

The keynote speakers are:

• Professor Erik Stam https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=QxSjCzcAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao
• Professor Jason Rentfrow https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=TZ9YLMoAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao
• Professor Charlie Karlsson https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=sjdSGrMAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao

The workshop will be held at the beautiful Hällsnäs Hotel and Conference venue, situated in a picturesque rural setting near Landvetter Airport, Gothenburg. You can find more information about the venue at their website: https://www.hallsnas.se/. Landvetter Airport is conveniently located and serves as Sweden's second-largest airport, providing easy access to various international connections. For more details on the airport and its services, you can visit their website: https://www.swedavia.se/landvetter.

We are pleased to inform you that attendance at the workshop is free of charge. The organizers will cover the costs of accommodation and meals for all participants. However, please note that travel expenses will need to be borne by the attendees themselves. Attached to this email, you will find the call for papers, which contains further information about the workshop. We kindly request you to share this call with your networks if you believe it would be appropriate.

We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you to the workshop this fall! Should you have any questions or require any additional information, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.

Best regards,

Charlotta Mellander

Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE)

Professor of Economics

Jönköping International Business School

Phone: +46(0)36 10 18 05

Dear RSAI members,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am pleased to write you to send you the newest issue of the RSAI Newsletter (download). 

Enjoy the read, and please do not hesitate to get in touch with Martijn (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Mina (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to propose new material for the newsletter.

Kind regards,

Due to several requests, the deadline for submittimg an abstract for the Fourth European SBCA conference has been extended to June 12, 2023.

Notification of acceptance:

16 June 2023 (for submissions received before May 15)

23 June 2023 (for submissions received after May 15)

Early bird registration deadline: 3 July 2023

Final registration deadline: 14 July 2023

To submit an abstract, GO TO THE EASYCHAIR SUBMISSION PLATFORM:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbca-eu2023

(After opening the link, click  on "create account" and follow the instructions)

All relevant information regarding the conference, including a detailed Call for Abstracts, will be available at the following web page, which will be constantly updated

 https://centrejeanmonnet.unimi.it/sbca-2023/

 https://www.benefitcostanalysis.org/european-conference-2023         

Dear RSAI members,

it is with great pleasure that we deliver good news. As of Jan. 1, 2024 both RSAI journals (Papers in Regional Science and Regional Science Policy & Practice) will be published by Elsevier.

The last decade was marked by continuous growth in quality and volume for both journals. For this, the RSAI is grateful to the current publisher, Wiley, which thoroughly supported our journal editors in the strive for offering better journals to our members.

As we all see from our everyday experience, the publication landscape is changing rapidly, and is in particular showing a fast growth of open access journals. These are meant to increase the access to science to as many researchers as possible, also including those hailing from low-income countries. To meet the needs of the market, the RSAI Council decided to partner with one of the top scientific publishers, Elsevier, to enhance the transition to gold open access for both journals. Therefore, effective Jan. 1, 2024, all articles published by our two journals will be published in the new mode.

As we realize that the transition is uneven, and may have distributional effects for a number of professional categories the RSAI Council has agreed a substantial number of waivers for Article Publishing Charges (APCs) and is now developing guidelines for their distribution. These are in addition to waivers and discounts already granted through initiatives supported by the Publisher such as Research4Life.

We are most happy to let the community know of this further step in the process of growth of our journals, and we can already guarantee that our Editors will keep working hard for selecting sound and impactful research to our community.

Please do follow our journals, web site, and newsletter for being kept abreast of the further developments,

Kind regards,

A Tribute to Richard James Arnott

Richard James Arnott, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), passed peacefully at his home in Riverside on April 21, 2023, after a short battle with leukemia. He was 74 years old.

Born on January 23, 1949, in London to Drs. David Charles and Ruth Margaret Arnott, Richard spent his childhood in England and Canada. He received his B.S. in Urban Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1971, and another M.A. and an M.Phil. in Economics from Yale University in 1972. In 1975, he earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale under the guidance of Joseph E. Stiglitz, who would later receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. Richard’s Ph.D. Dissertation, entitled Topics in Residential Location Theory, pioneered the analysis of the interaction between public finance and the spatial allocation of households, leading to a theory of optimal city size in a spatial economy.

Before joining UCR in 2007, Richard taught at Queen’s University (Canada) from 1975 to 1988, and Boston College from 1988 to 2007. He was affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Research Associate from 1991 to 2005. He had also taken visiting positions at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, and many other prominent institutions in America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

Richard was a multidimensional thinker with diverse interests. Primarily an urban economic theorist, Richard published prominently in urban, public, and transportation economics as well as in microeconomic theory. Examples of his research topics include the optimal city, traffic congestion, the housing market, moral hazard, public finance, urban transportation, and land use. Stiglitz cited ten of his joint works with Richard in his Nobel Prize lecture as having motivated, facilitated, or extended the shift of paradigm in economics toward one that centers our understanding of the market and public policy around problems of information. Richard made significant contributions, primarily theoretical and methodological, to the discipline of regional science throughout his career; for this, he was awarded the Hoyt Academic Fellowship by the Homer Hoyt Institute in 2001, was elected as a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International in 2006, and received the Walter Isard Award of the North American Regional Science Council in 2008.

As part of his professional service, Richard edited the Journal of Economic Geography from 1999 to 2003 and Regional Science and Urban Economics from 2003 to 2007, and he served on over twenty editorial boards. As William S. Vickrey passed away soon after the announcement that he would receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996, Richard served as the archivist of Vickrey’s papers at Columbia University from October 1996 to the end of 1997. Richard also served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association from 1981 to 1984 and as the Vice President of the International Transportation Economics Association from 2010 to 2012. In 2015, Economics of Transportation, the official journal of the International Transportation Economics Association, published a special issue in honor of Richard, not only for his scientific contributions, but also for his many contributions to the journal, the association, and the profession. On campus, Richard assumed numerous administrative responsibilities at the departmental and university levels at Queen’s, Boston College, and UCR, and always fulfilled them with diligence and efficiency. At UCR, among many responsibilities, he served as Chair of the Committee on Research, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Planning and Budget, on the CHASS Executive Committee, and two stints as Graduate Advisor in the Department of Economics. For the public, he advised the Department of Finance of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada, Executive Council of Ontario (Canada), and Province of Ontario (Canada).

One of Richard’s major contributions to the profession was as a mentor to students and junior colleagues. In his career, he supervised or advised more than 70 Ph.D. dissertations at Queen’s, Boston College, and UCR, and many of these students are now tenured professors and have had fruitful research careers. Richard was highly respected, on campus and in the profession, not only for his scholarly contributions, but also for the intellectual support and advice that he generously provided to his colleagues.

Richard was a soft-spoken gentleman with impeccable manners in the best of old English traditions. He will be remembered for his scholarship, service, and mentoring, as well as for his witty humor and enthusiasm for the music of Mozart, films of Alec Guinness, and the game of baseball. But most of all, he will be remembered as an empathic, kind, caring, and generous human being.

Richard is survived and missed by his twin brother John, his sister Jane, and dog Dirk. He asked not to have a service. Information about a scholarship to be created in his name will be forthcoming on the Department of Economics webpage. We will all miss him dearly.

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

Calll for Special Issue: Urban-rural linkages: policies, actions, and visions for coordinated territorial decisions, and conflicts resolution

This year, on May 11 and 12, Narxoz University , together with The Regional Science Association International, is holding an international conference on sustainable development in Central Asia "The 1st International Conference on Sustainable Regional Development in Central Asia" (Ryskulov Readings - 2023).

RSAI is the publisher of the Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) - Q2 journal in the Scopus database. According to our agreement, all abstracts approved for presentation by the scientific committee of the conference will be considered by the editors of the journal for publication in the format of an article absolutely free of charge. All other papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

The conference is also dedicated to a significant date - the 60th anniversary of Narxoz University. The university, established in 1963, has trained more than 140,000 graduates for the economy of Kazakhstan, and in 2023 Narxoz draws a jubilee line under its past and reveals grandiose plans for the future.

Program is attached.

https://kk.narxoz.kz/sustainable2023#!/tab/539294463-1