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Impact of climate change on Indian agriculture: new evidence from the autoregressive distributed lag approach 气候变化对印度农业的影响：自回归分布滞后法的新证据

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00327-1

Mohammad Azhar Ud Din, Shaukat Haseen

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Regional decline and structural changes in Northeast China: an exploratory space–time approach 中国东北地区的衰落与结构变化：一种探索性的时空方法

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00328-0

Yilin Chen

{"title":"Regional decline and structural changes in Northeast China: an exploratory space–time approach","authors":"Yilin Chen","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00328-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00328-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Literature on New Economic Geography (NEG) highlights the importance of spatial concentration and spillover effects in economic growth or decline. Northeast China, as an old industrial base, is experiencing a regional decline since its transition to the post-industrial stage. Therefore, what is the main sectoral composition in Northeast China and how does this influence regional decline? To what extent do spatial spillovers play a role before and during the regional decline of Northeast China? Based on these questions, we investigated the spatial connections between regional decline and structural changes in Northeast China over three development periods: Rust Belt (1995–2002), revival (2002–2015), and decline (2015–2019). The recent exploratory space–time data analysis was employed on prefecture-level income and its structural change components (sectoral output and employment ratio). We found that the possible reason for the regional decline in Northeast China is premature deindustrialisation. Spatial co-decline in the employment of industry and construction, the primary source of regional decline, facilitates most of the space–time patterns of the regional income. Agglomeration of the agricultural sector has shifted to the north, while industry and construction have gravitated towards the middle and south, with no clear spatial patterns in the service sector. Dependence on natural resources has a \"lock-in effect\" that inhibits the transition from industry to services, so industry and construction remain the most efficient in Northeast China. Strengthening spatial connections is essential for local governments to develop service sectors and overcome declining conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 2","pages":"397 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41685-023-00328-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139849021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lights and the Invisibles: towards a regional/sector-wise policy approach exploring India’s economy–environment trade-offs 灯光与隐形：探索印度经济与环境权衡的地区/部门政策方法

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00326-2

Monica Jaison, Althaf Shajahan

{"title":"Lights and the Invisibles: towards a regional/sector-wise policy approach exploring India’s economy–environment trade-offs","authors":"Monica Jaison, Althaf Shajahan","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00326-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00326-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Air pollution mitigation strategies are either global or national. In this study, we highlight the need for regional/sector-wise mitigation strategies. We first explored the relationship between economic activity (measured using Nighttime Lights) and air quality for India (and Norway as a comparative reference) employing the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Second, we focused on the need to shift from global/national-level air pollution mitigation policies to geoclimatic region-wise policy implementation in developing nations with significant economic and physical geography heterogeneity. We considered regional/sector-wise differences in the economic activity–air quality relationship, thereby aiding future policy action in these regions/sectors. We used a panel econometric research design on geospatial variables extracted from the Google Earth Engine. We investigated causality using an Instrument Variable strategy. Economic activity in Norway led to improved air quality, while India is still far from an inverted U-shaped EKC. An inverted U-shaped EKC existed for BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh) states after accounting for transboundary pollution. Transport and industrial sectors were significant contributors to air pollution in India, with Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations highest in the Central, Western, and Eastern regions. At the same time, West India was no longer a Sulfur Dioxide polluting hub. Export hubs were sources of Nitrogen Dioxide pollution, while the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors were characterized by Carbon Monoxide and Sulfur Dioxide emissions. Given the geographical heterogeneities, global/national intervention policies may not solve the underlying problem anymore. Alternatively, shifting to a decentralized approach involving source-level interventions is the need of the hour.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"291 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139613403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Measuring office attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic with mobility data to quantify local trends and characteristics 利用流动性数据衡量 COVID-19 大流行期间的办公室出勤率，以量化地方趋势和特点

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-01-18 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00324-4

Makoto Sakuma, Kazushi Matsuo, Morito Tsutsumi, Toyokazu Imazeki

{"title":"Measuring office attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic with mobility data to quantify local trends and characteristics","authors":"Makoto Sakuma, Kazushi Matsuo, Morito Tsutsumi, Toyokazu Imazeki","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00324-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00324-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the work-from-home trend, with significant variations in location, industry and firm size. These shifts have significantly affected economies and societies but traditional data cannot be easily tracked. This paper presents a method for measuring office attendance and examines its trends and characteristics. To this end, we first introduced the working-at-office ratio, which is the percentage of people going to an office compared to the pre-COVID-19 period, considering 74 office submarkets in six major Japanese cities. We captured mobility trends in office buildings using rich Global Positioning System-based mobile location data combined with specific office location data. Subsequently, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed indicators by comparing them with other mobility data and office attendance indicators. Finally, we examined the relationships between the working-at-office ratio and the characteristics of the office buildings and tenants in each submarket. The findings indicated that factors, such as the proportion of large buildings, concentration of specific sectors, and tenant size, were significantly related to office attendance, with these relationships evolving over the duration of the pandemic. Our approach provides real-time, granular insights into office attendance trends, which are crucial for anticipating future work paradigms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"185 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139526326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Technological paths and smart specialization: analysis of regional entry and exit in Turkey 技术路径和智能专业化：对土耳其地区进入和退出的分析

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2023-12-22 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00325-3

Mert Abay, Sedef Akgüngör

{"title":"Technological paths and smart specialization: analysis of regional entry and exit in Turkey","authors":"Mert Abay, Sedef Akgüngör","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00325-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00325-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Smart specialization (SS) strategy emerged as a policy framework within the European Union’s (EU) regional policies, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis. Although a wide range of literature on smart specialization exists, there is limited empirical evidence on how the SS framework correlates with regional entrance and exit of technologies. Moreover, little is known about the connection between SS variables and technological growth paths, particularly in the context of a developing country. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between two building blocks of SS (relatedness and complexity) on technological trajectories in a developing country. Using regional patent data for Turkey’s regions at the NUTS3 level between 1978 and 2017, the study investigated patterns of regional trajectories by exploring how entry and exit are correlated within the SS framework. GDP per capita, population, the number of universities and techno-parks, Herfindahl–Hirschman Index, and complexity of regions were included in the study as control variables. The results showed that technological complexity is negatively correlated with the probability of entry, and positively correlated with the probability of exit. The results also revealed the role of technological relatedness as a tool to attract new and complementary technologies to a region. However, correlations between relatedness and probability of entry are weakened as the number of universities and techno-parks increases in a region, while the correlations between complexity and exit are enhanced, particularly with the presence of universities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"45 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138944664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Regional convergence of total factor productivity in Japanese industries: evidence from the twenty-first century industry data 日本工业全要素生产率的地区趋同：来自 21 世纪工业数据的证据

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2023-12-10 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00323-5

Akihiro Otsuka

{"title":"Regional convergence of total factor productivity in Japanese industries: evidence from the twenty-first century industry data","authors":"Akihiro Otsuka","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00323-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00323-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Innovation and technological progress are crucial to the sustainability of regional economies. Assessing the role of the spatial dimension in the innovation process and evaluating the convergence of regional disparities in technological levels encompasses a vital research endeavor. The significance of this research effort lies in the fact that the convergence of economic disparities can be accelerated or impeded depending on the innovation process, that is, whether regional disparities in technological levels decrease or increase over time. This study provides new insights into regional disparities of total factor productivity (TFP) in Japan using a new method, the stochastic convergence model. The stochastic convergence model allows determination of the long-term stationarity in the convergence of disparities, which has been challenging in conventional analyses. In this study, we first evaluated the technological level of regional industries by measuring industry-specific TFP. Then, we verified the convergence of disparities in TFP among regions using a stochastic convergence model. The analysis results showed that TFP is rising with narrowing of regional disparities, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Furthermore, TFP converged to steady-state levels in each region, revealing the importance of the regional production environment in innovation. The results of this study provide important implications for developing strategies to enhance the sustainability of regional economies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"165 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138584798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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International efficiency evaluation of education and impacts of bullying: a value inversion–data envelopment analysis approach 国际教育效率评估和欺凌的影响：价值反转--数据包络分析法

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00320-8

Kouhei Kikuchi, Soushi Suzuki, Peter Nijkamp

{"title":"International efficiency evaluation of education and impacts of bullying: a value inversion–data envelopment analysis approach","authors":"Kouhei Kikuchi, Soushi Suzuki, Peter Nijkamp","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00320-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00320-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Education plays a vital role in the development of any country or region, making it imperative to address obstacles that hinder educational quality such as school bullying. This is an under-researched topic in the social sciences. Bullying is a form of social mistreatment that may have detrimental effects, because students who experience frequent bullying tend to perform poorer compared to their peers who do not report such incidents. Given this evidence, it is crucial to assess the educational performance of countries by considering the overall well-being, including mental well-being, of students. In this context, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a valuable method for evaluating the performance of decision-making units in education. In our paper, we discuss various approaches to apply DEA when dealing with \"undesirable\" outputs like bullying. Common techniques involve transforming undesirable outputs using reciprocal transformations and employing a \"bad-output\" model. However, these methods have several drawbacks, such as altering the nature of the selected output items, loss of linearity, reduced robustness of the efficiency frontier, and limited versatility. To address these concerns, our paper proposes and tests a value inversion–DEA model that can consistently transform \"undesirable\" data into a reverse measurement scale, while preserving linearity. We demonstrate the high versatility of this model across different types of DEA models with undesirable outputs. Furthermore, we apply this proposed method to assess the educational efficiency of OECD countries, focusing on bullying as an undesirable output. Our findings show that significant improvements in performance are possible in many countries by addressing school bullying.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"137 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138597389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction: The volatility connectedness between fertilizers and rice price: evidences from the global major rice-producing countries 更正：化肥与大米价格之间的波动关联：来自全球主要大米生产国的证据

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00322-6

Harun Uçak, Irfan Ullah, Yakup Ari

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Impacts of enhancing regional network economies on regional productivity and productive efficiency in Japan: evaluation from stochastic frontier analysis 加强地区网络经济对日本地区生产力和生产效率的影响：随机前沿分析评估

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00321-7

Akihiro Otsuka

{"title":"Impacts of enhancing regional network economies on regional productivity and productive efficiency in Japan: evaluation from stochastic frontier analysis","authors":"Akihiro Otsuka","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00321-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00321-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the advancement of technology and advent of a networked society, economic agents within a region benefit from local interactions within the region as well as the external economies. However, strengthening extra-regional ties may have negative consequences for regions near the center if all their economic resources are absorbed by the core. It is unclear, for regional economic agents, whether the negative network externalities dominate the positive ones. This has not been fully elucidated in the previous studies. To contribute to a breakthrough for this research topic, this study identified the impacts of network externalities on improvements in productivity and productive efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis. The analysis revealed that the borrowed size effect of agglomeration in the manufacturing industry significantly raises total factor productivity through shifts in the production frontier. It also revealed that the shadow effect of agglomeration does not adversely affect the productive efficiency of industry in either the manufacturing or non-manufacturing sector. These results imply that enhancing quality transportation infrastructure and improving inter-regional transportation networks can enhance the production performance of regional industries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"25 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139246145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Government spending and regional poverty alleviation: evidence from Egypt 政府支出与地区减贫：来自埃及的证据

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1007/s41685-023-00318-2

Dina N. Elshahawany, Ramy H. Elazhary

{"title":"Government spending and regional poverty alleviation: evidence from Egypt","authors":"Dina N. Elshahawany, Ramy H. Elazhary","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00318-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00318-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Poverty is a major socio-economic problem facing most developing countries. In Egypt, approximately 30% of citizens live below the poverty level, which is more evident at the regional level. Reducing poverty can be achieved through better allocation of government spending, because it is essential for promoting economic growth, improving income distribution and reducing poverty. Understanding the relationships between government spending and regional poverty reduction can enhance the ability of policymakers to design programs that effectively reduce regional poverty and lessen income inequality. This study aimed to analyze the impact of government spending in alleviating regional poverty in Egypt. A panel data set for 27 Egyptian governorates from 2010 to 2018 was employed. The two-way fixed effect regression model was used to apply the differences between regions over time. The results showed that only social government spending significantly affects poverty reduction at the national level. Health, education and social government spending showed significant negative impacts on poverty at the region level, especially in Upper Egypt and Cairo.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"8 1","pages":"111 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136209022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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