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Cluster Policy, Innovation, and Firm Productivity. An Econometric Assessment of the Flemish Spearhead Cluster Program 集群政策、创新与企业生产率。佛兰德先锋集群计划的计量经济评估
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70037
Pierluigi Angelino, Dirk Czarnitzki, Astrid Volckaert
{"title":"Cluster Policy, Innovation, and Firm Productivity. An Econometric Assessment of the Flemish Spearhead Cluster Program","authors":"Pierluigi Angelino,&nbsp;Dirk Czarnitzki,&nbsp;Astrid Volckaert","doi":"10.1111/jors.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Flemish government launched its Spearhead Cluster (SHC) policy in 2017. The aim is to boost strategic sectors by setting up cluster initiatives which coordinate collaborative R&amp;D initiatives. In this paper, we analyze whether becoming a member of such a cluster initiative has an impact on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the firm. We exploit firm-level data between 2013 and 2020 to estimate TFP and apply various difference-in-differences approaches to assess the programs' treatment effects. We find that becoming a member of a cluster has an average positive impact on firm-level TFP of around 4% roughly, robust to different econometric specifications. A mechanism analysis suggests that the benefit of the cluster policy is driven by knowledge spillovers among the cluster members because we find that the positive treatment effect is negatively moderated by the distance among cluster members.</p>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 2","pages":"426-444"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jors.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Roads to Growth: Evidence From Rural China 增长之路：来自中国农村的证据
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70045
Wei Chen, Junliang Chen, Huanguang Qiu, Jialing Yu, Wei Chen, Xinyue Wang
{"title":"Roads to Growth: Evidence From Rural China","authors":"Wei Chen,&nbsp;Junliang Chen,&nbsp;Huanguang Qiu,&nbsp;Jialing Yu,&nbsp;Wei Chen,&nbsp;Xinyue Wang","doi":"10.1111/jors.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study explores the role of road construction in facilitating economic growth in China during the era of rapid economic growth using a dataset from satellite data and official statistics to model progress in rural China from 1995 to 2018. A long-difference model with instrumental variables of topographic characteristics and historical roads reveals that building a 1 km road closer to a village leads to an annual economic growth of 0.75% in the sample period over two decades. We observe larger effects on economic growth in relatively more socioeconomically disadvantaged regions, and connecting local markets is more crucial to the rural economy than farther and larger markets. Furthermore, low-tier roads connecting to villages offer a much greater economic benefit-cost ratio than higher-class roads. Our study underscores the importance of enhancing road connectivity in economically disadvantaged areas, and the cost-benefit insights could be valuable for future investments of transport infrastructure in dispersed areas of other developing countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 2","pages":"542-562"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Peer Interactions, Local Markets, and Within Occupation Wages: Evidence From Italy 同侪互动、地方市场与职业薪资：来自意大利的证据
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70041
Irene Brunetti, Valerio Intraligi, Andrea Ricci, Claudia Vittori
{"title":"Peer Interactions, Local Markets, and Within Occupation Wages: Evidence From Italy","authors":"Irene Brunetti,&nbsp;Valerio Intraligi,&nbsp;Andrea Ricci,&nbsp;Claudia Vittori","doi":"10.1111/jors.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper explores how occupation-specific urban wage premia (UWPs) relate to workplace peer interactions and population density. To this end, we use a unique Italian employer–employee dataset that combines administrative records on wages and individual labor market histories with detailed survey data on occupational characteristics. Our findings show that both peer interactions and population density positively influence local wages at the occupational level. However, the responsiveness of the UWP to population density is lower in occupations characterized by more intensive peer interactions. These results are robust to various occupational and worker-level heterogeneities, as well as to potential endogeneity concerns.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 2","pages":"484-499"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unveiling Spatial Dependencies — Investigating the Determinants of Firm Exit in Germany 揭示空间依赖——调查德国企业退出的决定因素
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70042
Simon Knappe, Dominik Wied, Tobias Jansen
{"title":"Unveiling Spatial Dependencies — Investigating the Determinants of Firm Exit in Germany","authors":"Simon Knappe,&nbsp;Dominik Wied,&nbsp;Tobias Jansen","doi":"10.1111/jors.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The determinants of firm exit in Germany, with a particular focus on the role of spatial dependence, are investigated. Using administrative microdata, a baseline probit model confirms the importance of internal firm characteristics, most notably firm size, growth dynamics, and legal form, in explaining exit probabilities. Descriptive spatial analysis based on Global Moran's <i>I</i> statistics reveals substantial geographic heterogeneity. To account for these spatial patterns, spatial probit models are estimated separately for each county, making the analysis computationally feasible. These estimations indicate that spatial dependence is present in a meaningful share of regions, driven primarily by unobserved regional conditions rather than observable firm characteristics. While the core internal determinants remain robust across specifications, the significance of the spatial autoregressive parameter demonstrates that firm exit is influenced not only by firm-level attributes but also by the broader economic environment in which firms operate. These findings highlight the importance of incorporating spatial context into empirical analyses of firm survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 2","pages":"500-515"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jors.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Industrial Robots, Resource Misallocation, and Firm Innovation Performance: Evidence From China 工业机器人、资源错配与企业创新绩效：来自中国的证据
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70035
Bo Yang, Fei Fan, Shangze Dai, Siyi Chen
{"title":"Industrial Robots, Resource Misallocation, and Firm Innovation Performance: Evidence From China","authors":"Bo Yang,&nbsp;Fei Fan,&nbsp;Shangze Dai,&nbsp;Siyi Chen","doi":"10.1111/jors.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Industrial automation technology, represented by industrial robots, has changed socioeconomic development. Using a general equilibrium framework and panel data on Chinese listed manufacturing firms from 2011 to 2019, this study divides firm innovation performance into innovation quantity and quality, incorporating industrial robots, resource misallocation, and firm innovation performance into a unified theoretical framework for empirical research. The results show that adopting industrial robots can effectively promote firms' innovation performance from both the dimensions of innovation quantity and quality, but there exists an inverted U-shaped relationship between industrial robot adoption and firm innovation performance. Industrial robot adoption can promote firm innovation performance by alleviating labor misallocation among firms. However, it can also hinder firm innovation performance by alleviating capital misallocation. Furthermore, the impact of industrial robots on firms' innovation performance exhibits significant heterogeneity. The positive innovation effect of industrial robots is relatively stronger in high-tech industries, capital-intensive, and collaborative innovation firms.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 2","pages":"399-425"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Causal Relationship Between Jurisdiction Size and Institutional Quality 管辖权规模与制度质量的因果关系
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2026-03-11 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70057
Augusto Cerqua, Costanza Giannantoni, Federico Zampollo
{"title":"The Causal Relationship Between Jurisdiction Size and Institutional Quality","authors":"Augusto Cerqua,&nbsp;Costanza Giannantoni,&nbsp;Federico Zampollo","doi":"10.1111/jors.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the relationship between jurisdiction size and economic and electoral outcomes has been extensively studied, its causal impact on institutional capacity and quality remains unexplored. Leveraging the mergers of 197 Italian municipalities, we investigate changes in administrative quality using the Municipal Administration Quality Index (MAQI), a novel composite measure of local administrative capacity and quality based on three pillars: bureaucratic, political, and economic. Using a non-parametric difference-in-differences approach, we find that mergers substantially improve administrative performance. This improvement is driven primarily by the enhanced quality of local politicians and strengthened economic-fiscal performance, whereas bureaucratic efficiency improves only marginally. We demonstrate that these positive outcomes are attributable to economies of scale and the self-selection of higher-quality local politicians, who are drawn by the opportunity to earn higher wages. Our findings contribute to the broader debate on the optimal municipal size and demonstrate that municipal mergers among small municipalities can enhance the quality of local government.</p>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 2","pages":"685-702"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jors.70057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Decomposing Variations in Quality of Life Through Amenities: Evidence From Korean Cities 通过便利设施分解生活质量的差异：来自韩国城市的证据
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70027
Heepyung Cho
{"title":"Decomposing Variations in Quality of Life Through Amenities: Evidence From Korean Cities","authors":"Heepyung Cho","doi":"10.1111/jors.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We estimate the quality of life (QOL) across Korean cities and decompose the cross-sectional and temporal variations in QOL through amenities. Using administrative housing transaction data, a city's revealed-preference QOL is estimated from its cost of living relative to its wage level. Seoul, the biggest city in Korea, had a significantly high QOL in 2019, and its QOL continuously increased from 2015 to 2019. Based on a hedonic framework, households are willing to pay more for denser, more educated, and warmer cities. Decomposing QOL using amenities chosen by LASSO, we find that a large portion of the cross-sectional variation in QOL across cities is attributable to human-made amenities. We also show that most temporal variation in QOL can be accounted for by amenities, particularly their increasing value.</p>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 1","pages":"315-348"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jors.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Are We in the Same Boat? The Legacy of Historical Emigration on Attitudes Towards Immigration 我们在同一条船上吗？历史移民的遗产对移民态度的影响
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70025
Erminia Florio
{"title":"Are We in the Same Boat? The Legacy of Historical Emigration on Attitudes Towards Immigration","authors":"Erminia Florio","doi":"10.1111/jors.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>I analyze the effect of historical emigration on current attitudes towards immigrants and migration policies in central and southern Italy. To do so, I collect data on Italian emigrants by the municipality of last residence from the Ellis Island archives in the period 1892–1924. I estimate, then, the causal effect of emigration on a series of outcomes used to measure attitudes towards immigration through an IV strategy, by exploiting exogenous variation in proximity to departure port to the U.S. during the years 1892-1924. I find that emigration has a negative and significant long-run effect on attitudes towards immigration. In particular, higher historical emigration reduces the propensity to open refugees reception centers, social expenditure, volunteers in non-profit organizations and significantly decreases political support for more inclusive parties.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 1","pages":"270-292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Is the Occupational Evolution of Chinese Cities Driven by Industrial Structures? Insights From Industry-Occupation Cross-Relatedness 中国城市职业演化是否受产业结构驱动？来自行业-职业交叉相关性的见解
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70026
Rongjun Ao, Ling Zhong, Jing Chen, Xiaojing Li, Xiaoqi Zhou
{"title":"Is the Occupational Evolution of Chinese Cities Driven by Industrial Structures? Insights From Industry-Occupation Cross-Relatedness","authors":"Rongjun Ao,&nbsp;Ling Zhong,&nbsp;Jing Chen,&nbsp;Xiaojing Li,&nbsp;Xiaoqi Zhou","doi":"10.1111/jors.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While prior research has emphasized the path-dependent nature of occupational systems, it has paid limited attention to how local industrial structures contribute to occupational change. To address this gap, this study examines how regional occupational evolution is shaped by two distinct mechanisms: (1) path-dependent skill and knowledge transfer, whereby new occupations emerge through the recombination of existing occupational structures; and (2) industry-driven task reconfiguration, through which industrial upgrading reshapes the demand for occupations. To operationalize these dynamics, the concept of industry–occupation cross-relatedness is introduced, capturing the proximity between new occupations and a region's existing industrial portfolio. Drawing on panel data from 241 Chinese cities between 2000 and 2015, the study estimates the effects of both occupational relatedness and cross-relatedness on new occupation specialization. The results reveal that both mechanisms significantly promote occupational evolution, yet they tend to function as substitutes rather than complements. Furthermore, their effects differ across skill levels: high-skilled occupations are more responsive to industrial transformation, low-skilled occupations to occupational pathways, while medium-skilled occupations exhibit relatively weak responsiveness to both. These findings underscore the importance of structural conditions and skill heterogeneity in shaping regional patterns of occupational change.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 1","pages":"293-314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145970198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On the Disentanglement of an Economic Union 论经济联盟的解体
IF 2.7 3区 经济学
Journal of Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1111/jors.70024
Jorge Saraiva, José M. Gaspar, Kiyohiro Ikeda
{"title":"On the Disentanglement of an Economic Union","authors":"Jorge Saraiva,&nbsp;José M. Gaspar,&nbsp;Kiyohiro Ikeda","doi":"10.1111/jors.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study how the unilateral withdrawal of a region from an economic union affects the spatial distribution of economic activity and social welfare. We explore a three-region economic geography model under the assumption that this withdrawal can be expressed as a higher transportation cost between the leaving party and the remaining union members. We find that it is not stable for industry to become concentrated only between the remaining union regions and that asymmetric equilibria—in which the withdrawn region has the lowest share of industry—arise. We show that the share of industry in the withdrawn region increases as the differential in transportation costs and the global immobility of workers decrease. Finally, we also conclude that the economy as a whole attains its maximum social welfare when most of the industry is not in the withdrawn region.</p>","PeriodicalId":48059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Regional Science","volume":"66 1","pages":"244-269"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jors.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145987130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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