The role of spatial structures in shaping regional economic resilience: Evidence from OECD regions based on urban core configurations

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI:10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100116

Seulki Kim , Euijune Kim

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Abstract

The evolution toward more interconnected urban networks underscores the significance of spatial configuration in regional resilience. This study leverages the 2008 global financial crisis as a quasi-experimental context to examine how spatial structures shape the economic resilience of OECD regions to recessionary shocks. The results reveal that regions with cores exhibit higher resilience than those without. Among core regions, single-core regions outperform non-core regions, while multi-core regions demonstrate even stronger resilience. Notably, clustered-core regions—where multiple urban centers are spatially proximate—further enhance resilience by leveraging synergy effects through spatial interactions with neighboring resilient regions. Additionally, patterns of industrial diversity underscore the complementary yet asymmetric roles of related and unrelated variety. Unrelated variety drives substantial resilience gains by promoting structural independence, whereas related variety offers steady but moderate support by fostering sectoral interconnectedness and knowledge diffusion. These findings highlight that spatial integration beyond administrative boundaries can effectively foster cross-regional synergies.

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空间结构在塑造区域经济弹性中的作用：基于城市核心配置的经合组织地区证据

向更加相互关联的城市网络的演变强调了空间配置在区域弹性中的重要性。本研究以2008年全球金融危机为准实验背景，考察了空间结构如何塑造经合组织地区应对衰退冲击的经济弹性。结果表明，有地核的地区比没有地核的地区表现出更高的恢复能力。在核心区中，单核区表现优于非核心区，而多核区表现出更强的弹性。值得注意的是，集群核心区——多个城市中心在空间上接近——通过与邻近弹性区域的空间互动，利用协同效应进一步增强了弹性。此外，产业多样性的模式强调了相关和不相关品种的互补但不对称的作用。不相关品种通过促进结构独立性来推动实质性的弹性增益，而相关品种通过促进部门互联性和知识扩散来提供稳定但适度的支持。这些发现突出表明，超越行政边界的空间整合可以有效地促进跨区域协同效应。

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期刊介绍： Regional Science is the official journal of the Regional Science Association International. It encourages high quality scholarship on a broad range of topics in the field of regional science. These topics include, but are not limited to, behavioral modeling of location, transportation, and migration decisions, land use and urban development, interindustry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial statistics. The journal publishes papers that make a new contribution to the theory, methods and models related to urban and regional (or spatial) matters.