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Impact evaluation of broadband investment on coverage and household internet use in rural areas 宽带投资对农村地区覆盖和家庭互联网使用的影响评估

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100099

Ignacio Moral-Arce , María Gorriti , Miguel Gómez-Antonio

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Adaptive recovery and regional response: The impact of an earthquake on tourism industry dynamics 适应性恢复与区域响应：地震对旅游业动态的影响

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100100

Roberto Urbani , Fabrizio Colantoni , Riccardo Persio , Vladislava Stanková

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Digitalisation, platformisation and the transformations of local labour markets 数字化、平台化和当地劳动力市场的转型

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100103

Roberta Capello, Simona Ciappei, Camilla Lenzi

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Place-based policies and innovation: The contrasting roles of central and local special economic zones 地方政策与创新：中央与地方经济特区的角色对比

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100102

Longfei Zheng

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Growth, working capital and refinancing: The geography of post-pandemic regional financial resilience in UK SMEs 增长、营运资金和再融资：大流行后英国中小企业区域金融弹性的地理位置

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100101

Marc Cowling , Ross Brown , Weixi Liu , Huan Yang

{"title":"Growth, working capital and refinancing: The geography of post-pandemic regional financial resilience in UK SMEs","authors":"Marc Cowling , Ross Brown , Weixi Liu , Huan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100101","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100101","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding how small firms adapt and adjust financially following exogenous shocks is crucial and acts as a harbinger of regional financial resilience levels. Therefore, it is important to determine what shape firms are in as they emerge from a shock such as the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly with regard to their ability to finance new growth enhancing activities. Yet not all firms are ready to invest in future growth and simply need an injection of working capital while others need recourse to refinancing existing debts. To flesh out the concept of regional financial resilience, this paper examines how SMEs across different multi-scaler geographies (i.e. regions, sub-regions and districts) of the UK have been raising new loans to finance growth, working capital and/or simply refinancing their existing debt. Using a rich loan dataset for the UK covering 2021–2024 we find stark spatial variations in the proportion of firms reporting growth as the key mechanism for using the loans and these are strongest at the most disaggregate unit of spatial analysis examined (i.e. districts). Our findings suggest the future development of the UK economy is likely to display a very uneven spatial pattern with some areas investing heavily in growth, while for others, addressing cash flow problems or issues associated with existing debts are paramount. In response to the pandemic, small firms are exhibiting a complex spatial patchwork of regional financial resilience across the UK’s deeply variegated space economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"104 4","pages":"Article 100101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212195","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 impact of territories on the salaries of young individuals 领土对年轻人工资的影响

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100098

P. Caro , A. Checcaglini , J.-P. Guironnet

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Brazilian demographic dividend: A spatial analysis of the role of savings 巴西人口红利：储蓄作用的空间分析

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100097

Marianne Zwilling Stampe , Gabrielito Rauter Menezes , Fernando Pozzobon , Eduardo Grando Sirtoli

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The 'picking the fittest' approach and spatial dynamics in China’s artificial intelligence regional development 中国人工智能区域发展的“优胜劣汰”路径与空间动态

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100096

Saverio Barabuffi , Jacopo Cricchio , Alberto Di Minin

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Invention volatility and urban systems dynamics 发明波动性和城市系统动态

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100095

Breandán Ó hUallacháin, Jacob Douma

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Resilience and recovery in networked economic systems: An ex-ante analysis of susceptibility to aspects of a potential China–Taiwan conflict 网络经济系统的弹性与恢复：对大陆-台湾潜在冲突的敏感性分析

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Papers in Regional Science Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100094

Andrew G. Ross , Marko Raseta , Matthias Grajewski , Andreas Kleefeld

{"title":"Resilience and recovery in networked economic systems: An ex-ante analysis of susceptibility to aspects of a potential China–Taiwan conflict","authors":"Andrew G. Ross , Marko Raseta , Matthias Grajewski , Andreas Kleefeld","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global economy's interconnectedness and the potential for supply chain disruptions were highlighted recently during Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, a possible future conflict between China and Taiwan could lead to substantial disruptions in the availability of high-tech components and other goods produced by Taiwan that are widely used in manufacturing worldwide. It is necessary to understand and proactively address such potential supply chain vulnerabilities for critical goods and services. This paper applies a dynamic nonequilibrium model to identify the forward and backward dependencies of individual industrial, manufacturing, service, and energy sectors in a multi-regional context. The model tracks the macroeconomic variables of economies from their initial equilibrium state into a nonequilibrium stationary state, and quantifies their susceptibility, resilience, and recovery to shocks in the networked economic system. Through this analysis, the paper examines the impact of excluding Taiwan from global economic networks, revealing substantial impacts on major economies and sectors essential to the operating of the global economy. The approach presented and empirically tested enables policymakers and stakeholders to proactively use data-driven insights to anticipate future outcomes and reduce disruption risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"104 3","pages":"Article 100094"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143816444","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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