{"title":"Geography matters: The impact of geographic expansion on bank performance during the Great Recession","authors":"Luke Petach , Stephan Weiler , Greg Totten","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Geographic expansion negatively impacts bank outcomes during recessions. While increases in average bank-to-branch distance for a given bank have a small positive impact on bank performance, increases in average bank-to-branch distance across <em>all</em> banks negatively impact performance as a result of aggregate spillovers. These findings support the existence of economically substantive geographic information asymmetries in banking, emphasizing the need for an explicit consideration of the spatial implications of banking (de-)regulation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"103 1","pages":"Article 100009"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056819024000277/pdfft?md5=562c6a215e289b363c970c80b5648457&pid=1-s2.0-S1056819024000277-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140163770","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}
Héctor M. Posada , Andres García-Suaza , David Londoño
{"title":"The external effects of public housing developments on informal housing: The case of Medellín, Colombia","authors":"Héctor M. Posada , Andres García-Suaza , David Londoño","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The provision of new subsidized housing projects presents an effective solution for alleviating the significant housing deficit in developing countries. However, limited knowledge exists regarding how these housing projects impact the quality of the surrounding environment, particularly when situated near informal settlements. By using highly detailed data from Medellin, Colombia, and employing an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate the external effects of social housing programs on the neighboring communities. Our results demonstrate that these projects contribute to a reduction in informal housing, poverty levels, and crime within the surrounding neighborhood. This external effect is significant and often overlooked when assessing the overall returns of social housing programs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"103 1","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056819024000216/pdfft?md5=d7c5e20b5d7748f186ed5eeb73fee9fd&pid=1-s2.0-S1056819024000216-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140163771","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}
{"title":"How many gaps are there? Investigating the regional dimension of the gender commuting gap","authors":"Michaela Fuchs, Ramona Jost, Antje Weyh","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the gender gap in commuting by differentiating between the place of residence and work in urban and rural regions. Using administrative geo-referenced data for Germany and applying decomposition techniques, we provide evidence for a triple gap in commuting to the disadvantage of women. Apart from the overall gap, the regional disaggregation uncovers a further gap among workers commuting between rather than within regions, with the highest gap among commuters between rural regions. Occupational segregation and establishment size are the most relevant factors for explaining the gender commuting gaps.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"103 1","pages":"Article 100005"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056819024000228/pdfft?md5=cb2df911bb30485f5d37f966356b7fa0&pid=1-s2.0-S1056819024000228-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140163768","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}
Eva Coll-Martínez , Geoffroy Labrouche , Simon Nadel , Luis Orozco
{"title":"Regional determinants of biogas production units setup: Evidence from France","authors":"Eva Coll-Martínez , Geoffroy Labrouche , Simon Nadel , Luis Orozco","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aim of this paper is to analyze the regional determinants of biogas production units’ creation in French metropolitan NUTS-3 regions from 2012 to 2020. The theoretical framework combines two approaches stemming from evolutionary economic geography and social/local governance literature, exploring the regional factors that can foster the setup of biogas plants in France. Results suggest that 1) the setup of biogas plants is positively influenced by a technological advantage in biotech and waste management in regions, as well as in agri-food; 2) socio-economic and geographic factors contribute to their development; and 3) different factors related to the rural and urban characteristics of regions have differential impacts on their setup.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"103 1","pages":"Article 100007"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056819024000253/pdfft?md5=f7b2379e9b8a74bddc6290def0cd8298&pid=1-s2.0-S1056819024000253-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140085207","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}
{"title":"“Natural” disasters and regional governance: Evidence from European NUTS-3 regions","authors":"Davide Di Marcoberardino, Marco Cucculelli","doi":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>“Natural” disasters\" have negative consequences for the affected areas, including significant economic impacts. Using a sample of European NUTS-3 regions over the period 2003–17, this paper examines the impact of disasters on regional economic growth and the influence of the quality of regional governance on post-disaster economic recovery. We match disaster data from the EM-DAT database, EUROSTAT, US Geological Surveys and Global Archive of Large Floods. We find that the occurrence of a “natural” disaster leads to an annual decline in regional growth of about 0.28 percentage points. Furthermore, we find that both the impact on the economy and the duration of recovery are influenced by the quality of regional institutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"103 1","pages":"Article 100003"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056819024000204/pdfft?md5=fdae03e69ef49208b210a3798884393d&pid=1-s2.0-S1056819024000204-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140088423","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}
{"title":"Regional economic resilience, trophic characteristics, and ecological analogies","authors":"Hadi Arbabi , Giuliano Punzo","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12766","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12766","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Works on regional resilience have at times borrowed from the engineering and ecological framing of system resilience. In ecological contexts, system resilience is rooted in network structure and its characteristics. Here, we empirically investigate the relationship between regional economic resilience and regional trophic characteristics across regional and national boundaries. We consider 249 NUTS2 regions across 24 countries during the 2000–2010 period. We observe strong links between regional resilience and trophic metrics borrowed from the ecological literature. Our results further highlight regional trophic characteristics as a spatially heterogeneous intermediary for feedback effects between economic structure and output of regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 6","pages":"Pages 1127-1145"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136104256","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}
Freke Caset , Yuting Yang , Ben Derudder , Krasen Samardzhiev
{"title":"The productivity effects of polycentricity: A systematic analysis of urban regions in Europe","authors":"Freke Caset , Yuting Yang , Ben Derudder , Krasen Samardzhiev","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12765","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12765","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We focus on the extent to which polycentric urban regions can substitute for the agglomeration economies provided by large cities. Building on an open‐source software tool that helps identifying polycentric developments in urban regions, we analyse the spatial structure (in terms of size, dispersion and polycentricity) of 94 regions across 34 European countries and link this to their level of total factor productivity. We find that both more polycentric regions and more dispersed regions are associated with lower productivity levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 6","pages":"Pages 1193-1214"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136102480","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}
{"title":"Networking and spatial interactions: What contributes most to increasing museums' attractiveness?","authors":"Cristina Bernini , Federica Galli","doi":"10.1111/pirs.12764","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pirs.12764","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the relevance of museums in promoting cultural, tourism and economic development in local territories, we investigate the influence of both spatial and non‐spatial interactions on museum attractiveness. In particular, we assess whether non‐spatial collaborations such as partnerships and networking, contribute to enhancing their level of competitiveness and if spatial dependence occurs among neighbouring museums. Additionally, we differentiate the analysis by considering various location typologies, that is, sites located in highly attractive and remote areas. Findings from this study can assist policy‐makers in designing ad hoc strategies to encourage the active role of museums in their local context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51458,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Regional Science","volume":"102 6","pages":"Pages 1215-1233"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135927901","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}