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The effects of internal migration on regional convergence: Evidence from Serbia 国内移民对地区趋同的影响：塞尔维亚的证据

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100062

Maria Candelaria Barrios González , Maja Jandrić , Dejan Molnar , Svetozar Tanasković

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A longitudinal study of evolving polycentric pattern in Shanghai 上海多中心格局演变的纵向研究

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100059

Shijia Lin , Xinyi Niu

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The impact of natural disasters: How the 2009 earthquake transformed the economy of L’Aquila’s labour market area 自然灾害的影响：2009 年地震如何改变拉奎拉劳动力市场地区的经济

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100058

Giovanni Baiocchetti , Francesco Scotti , Pasquale Lelio Iapadre

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100056

Fransiskus Serfian Jogo

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The distributional characteristics of Interreg Transnational Programmes and their role in promoting regional cohesion 区域间跨国计划的分配特点及其在促进区域凝聚力方面的作用

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100057

Spyros Niavis, Dimitris Kallioras, George Petrakos

{"title":"The distributional characteristics of Interreg Transnational Programmes and their role in promoting regional cohesion","authors":"Spyros Niavis, Dimitris Kallioras, George Petrakos","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100057","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interreg is an instrument of Cohesion Policy promoting cooperation among different organizations of Europe to tackle common challenges. Project funding within Interreg could become competitive, given the strong interest from numerous institutions in participating. This, in turn, may lead to disparities in the number of projects implemented across European regions. If participation is driven by factors such as the economic development level of regions, then the fundamental aim of Cohesion Policy—to reduce the gaps between developed and lagging regions—may not be well served by Interreg, as existing gaps may be exacerbated. Given this issue, the paper focuses on the 12 Interreg transnational programmes, which bring together regions from many different countries. The paper examines the distributional characteristics of these programmes using conventional statistical and network measures with data from the 2014–2020 programming period. It then develops a novel indicator of regional participation levels and constructs and empirically tests a framework for measuring the effect of various socioeconomic, geographical, and demographic factors on the participation levels of EU regions. The analysis reveals differences in the allocation patterns of projects among the programmes and shows that different types of networks are formed. Additionally, the instrument appears to benefit smaller and wealthier regions, which results in counteracting demographic inequalities but simultaneously augmenting economic ones. To address this challenge, the paper provides recommendations for management authorities to make the formation of partnerships more equitable.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142530910","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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Building back greener, levelling-up or both? An assessment of the economic and environmental efficiency transition of UK regions 重新建设更环保的城市、提高城市水平还是两者兼而有之？英国各地区经济和环境效率转型评估

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100053

Giorgio Fazio , Sara Maioli , Nirat Rujimora

{"title":"Building back greener, levelling-up or both? An assessment of the economic and environmental efficiency transition of UK regions","authors":"Giorgio Fazio , Sara Maioli , Nirat Rujimora","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100053","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100053","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper assesses the transition of UK regions towards the policy ambitions of “building back greener” and “levelling-up” the UK economy. We use data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods to calculate regional economic and environmental efficiency for 41 UK ITL2 regions between 2005 and 2020, and then assess their “unconditional” and “spatial” transition probabilities of improving one of the two efficiencies or both. We find evidence of a trade-off between the two for more than half of the regions and that the costs of transition are unequally distributed. We also find that regions are more likely to become efficient in both directions if they are already environmentally efficient; less economically efficient regions are more likely to become economically efficient than environmentally efficient. Economic efficiency improvements are easier to achieve than environmental efficiency improvements, requiring stronger policy support for the latter. The high inertia of regions requires central and local authorities’ intervention to reduce regional inequalities and improve both types of efficiency. Whilst we do not find evidence of spatial spillovers for environmental transitions, space (negatively) matters for regional economic efficiency. Without a combination of place-based and national policies, there is no natural regional convergence nor levelling up, whilst the transition to net zero will remain too slow.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142358197","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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Regional R&I ventures to tackle climate change: A new geography of challenge-oriented innovation landscape 应对气候变化的地区研发企业：以挑战为导向的创新景观新地理

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100052

Francesco Cappellano , Anabela M. Santos , Nicola Francesco Dotti

{"title":"Regional R&I ventures to tackle climate change: A new geography of challenge-oriented innovation landscape","authors":"Francesco Cappellano , Anabela M. Santos , Nicola Francesco Dotti","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper analyses how EU regions have aligned their innovation and policy endeavours to tackle exposure to the effects of Climate Change at regional level. Scholars hailed the need to orienting efforts and resources to tackle societal challenges. However, we have little empirical evidence on the alignment of R&I ecosystems and policy endeavours towards tackling Climate Change. Using regression analysis, we assess the relationship between such directionality and the exposure to risk of disasters (i.e., coastal floods, river floods, and landslides) that each region faces in the short, medium, and long term due to Climate Change. Results show a positive relationship between risk projection and climate change preparedness. However, a more in-depth analysis demonstrates the complexity of such geographical \"problem-solution convergence\": investigating whether the EU regions most at risk of being affected by climate change are also the ones most ready to target climate change through an aligned combination of R&I and policy efforts. Findings show that more developed regions appear more ready to tackle climate change effects compared to transition and less developed regions. These findings suggest that more support is needed for less developed regions facing major Climate Change-related risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056819024000721/pdfft?md5=07906f3a5552d50f21232b153f69e2d8&pid=1-s2.0-S1056819024000721-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142311654","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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Is Shanghai a rival to Seoul? Analysis on complementary and competitive relationships in trade 上海是首尔的竞争对手吗？贸易中的互补与竞争关系分析

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100050

Yoojin Yi , Euijune Kim

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Spatial and interindustry interactions in labour productivity convergence: An Industrial Journey via Galician Shires, 2010–2018 劳动生产率趋同中的空间和行业间互动：2010-2018 年加利西亚郡的工业之旅

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100051

Fernando de la Torre Cuevas , Michael L. Lahr , Edelmiro López-Iglesias

{"title":"Spatial and interindustry interactions in labour productivity convergence: An Industrial Journey via Galician Shires, 2010–2018","authors":"Fernando de la Torre Cuevas , Michael L. Lahr , Edelmiro López-Iglesias","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100051","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Regions and industries are not isolated islands; so, when evaluating productivity growth, regional and sectoral growth paths should not be expected to generate independently. Moreover, accounting for spatial interactions via econometric models has become normal practice; but modelling interindustry dependencies has not. Thus, we expand labour productivity econometric convergence models by introducing interindustry spillovers in addition to spillovers that are spatial in nature. To illustrate our findings, we present an empirical application predicated upon Galicia (extreme northwest Spain), a region posing major challenges to such modelling. Our results point to the relevance of interindustry spillovers in explaining productivity growth. Furthermore, the approach allows us to better interpret covariates that explain the different growth paths across regions and industries, thus enabling more reliable policy recommendations. We find that interindustry dependencies transmit productivity shocks across regions. In addition, our results suggest that spatial and interindustry dependencies should be considered when formulating (sub)regional economic development policies. Finally, our approach corrects possible misspecification problems that arise from data scarcity. This makes it a viable alternative for multiregional econometric tests in which some sectoral detail is needed. It is particularly useful for sets of regions where data needed to populate such models is scarce.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105681902400071X/pdfft?md5=33f2f7869b78c8886d54b0c90ce08566&pid=1-s2.0-S105681902400071X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172151","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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EU regional policy and local economic growth: Does banking development matter? 欧盟地区政策与地方经济增长：银行业发展重要吗？

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100049

Paolo Coccorese

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