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UNESCO World Heritage Site label and sustainable tourism in Europe: a user-generated content analysis Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Egbert Van der Zee, Nicola Camatti, Dario Bertocchi, Khalid W.A. Shomali
Officially branding local heritage through recognised labels is a strategy that regions can use to promote economic development. Regions increasingly seek more sustainable tourism development, whic...
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Leveraging on circular economy technologies for recombinant dynamics: do localised knowledge and digital complementarities matter? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Fabrizio Fusillo, Francesco Quatraro, Cristina Santhià
This paper investigates the relationship between local knowledge bases and recombinant dynamics in circular economy (CE) technologies. We focus on the role of accumulated green and digital compleme...
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Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Lorenzo Gabrielli, Patrizia Sulis, Matteo Fontana, Serena Signorelli, Michele Vespe, Carlo Lavalle
The recent so-called ‘data revolution’ offers unprecedented opportunities to innovate regional policies. New data sources are being widely used by the scientific community, however their uptake is ...
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Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Lisa De Propris
Advanced economies have started to engage more pro-actively in designing, promoting and implementing a range of policies that aim to address the concurrence of two powerful and irreversible forces:...
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Innovation for the masses: how to share the benefits of the high-tech economy Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Robert Huggins
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Borys Cieślak, Paula Nagler, Frank van Oort
Among Polish cities facing socioeconomic difficulties are the former regional capitals which lost their administrative status due to the 1998 reform, reducing the number of regions. Making use of t...
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Universities as catalysts of change in locked-in and vulnerable resource-based regions of the Global South Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 José Luis Medina-Bueno, José Guimón, Elvira Uyarra, Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo
This paper explores the contribution of universities to regional development and innovation in locked-in and vulnerable resource-based regions of the Global South. Building on a regional change age...
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Herding and reverse herding in US housing markets: new evidence from a metropolitan-level analysis Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Matthew Pollock, Masaki Mori, Yi Wu
This study is the first to examine herding and reverse herding in US metropolitan housing markets based on Zillow ZIP-level house price indices. Reverse herding is found to be more prevalent than h...
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Understanding green regional path development: a systematic study of the Nordic regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Christian Richter Østergaard, Eunkyung Park, Daniel S. Hain, Anne N. Tanner
This paper addresses the gaps in understanding green regional path development and the role of firm-level agency in driving regional green transitions. By analysing a large patent dataset covering ...
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Agglomeration economies: different effects on TFP in high-tech and low-tech industries Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch
We study the impact of agglomeration effects on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) for industry groups defined by technology intensity. This allows for non-uniform effects on firms depending on...
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Decentralisation, intergovernmental coordination, and response to extreme events in Southeast Asia Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Sarah Shair-Rosenfield
Despite common lessons learned during the SARS pandemic in 2003, country responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia have been very diverse, with many lacking coordination among government...
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An evolutionary approach to regional studies on global value chains Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ron Boschma
There is an ongoing dialogue that explores how the global production network and evolutionary economic geography (EEG) literatures can make promising crossovers. This paper aims to contribute to th...
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Temporality in the delimitation of functional regions: the use of mobile phone location data Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Marián Halás
This paper evaluates the role of ‘temporality’ in defining functional regions. Functional regions are viewed as relatively closed in terms of selected population flows (or more generally concerning...
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Mundane innovation in the periphery: the foundational economy in a less developed region Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Dylan Henderson, Kevin Morgan, Rick Delbridge
This article explores the role that foundational economy (FE) actors can play in innovation in peripheral regions. We argue that research which casts peripheral regions as backwaters of innovation ...
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Regional diversification and intra-regional wage inequality in the Netherlands Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 N. Cortinovis, D. Zhang, R. Boschma
The literature has shown that related diversification in more complex industries enhances economic growth in regions but also inter-regional inequality. However, it has drawn little attention to th...
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The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Davide Castellani, Nigel Driffield, Katiuscia Lavoratori
The relationship between inward investments and local firms’ productivity is contingent on several contextual conditions that collectively define the ability of firms and regions to recognise, assi...
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Migrants and boomtowns: evidence from the US shale boom Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Isha Rajbhandari, Alessandra Faggian, Mark Partridge
This paper analyses if and how oil and gas developments foster in-migration of workers into boomtowns. In particular, we focus on the workers’ human capital, as a way to help local growth. Using a ...
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Exploring the spatialisation of the performance of residential REITs investment and direct investment in the housing market Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Mustapha Bangura, Chyi Lin Lee
Despite numerous studies about the housing sector, the connection between the performance of residential real estate investment trusts (REITs) investment and direct investment in the housing market...
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From regional to global and back again? A future agenda for regional evolution and (de)globalised production networks in regional studies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Henry Wai-chung Yeung
This paper builds common grounds for a future research agenda in the regional studies of evolutionary economic geography and global production networks. I put forward two ‘troubling themes’ of (geo...
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Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Niccolo Durazzi
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Amelia Hine, Chris Gibson, Chantel Carr
This paper analyses the discursive and material politics of energy transition, focusing on promotion of Australian industrial regions as ‘green hydrogen hubs’. Regions are key spatial imaginaries i...
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The twin innovation transitions of European regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Giorgio Fazio, Sara Maioli, Nirat Rujimora
We investigate the spatial distributions and transitions of European regions' innovative orientation to information and communication technology (ICT), green technology or twin technologies. Using ...
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Brand on the run: place brands as judgement devices and sources of local advantage in the music industry Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Patrick Adler
Products from certain areas are assumed to share qualities by virtue of where they are made. This article considers the economic significance of such place brands in the wider market for symbolic g...
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Regional capability, evolutionary economic geography and global production networks Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jessie P. H. Poon
In this exchange, I suggest that regional capability provides a lens to link two popular theories in regional studies, namely evolutionary economic geography (EEG) and global production networks (G...
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Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Neil Lee
Two of the canonical approaches in regional studies are global production networks (GPNs) and evolutionary economic geography (EEG). Recent geopolitical and economic events have shown the importanc...
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Local migration policy: governance structures and policy output in Swedish municipalities Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Andrea Spehar
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 David Lublin
An examination of eleven Western democracies reveals that widespread crises like the Great Recession and COVID-19 spurred increases in the number of parties with the effect of the recession proport...
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Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mathew Nicolson
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 5, 2024)
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Exploring the drivers of internal labour migration for the regions of Great Britain Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Heather Dickey, Maire Carroline Magante
The role of internal migration in reducing regional inequalities is a common feature of classical economic theory and urban economics models. If regional migration is important in reducing spatial ...
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Natural disasters and intergovernmental relations: more or less decentralisation? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Luiz de Mello, João Tovar Jalles
Subnational governments, at the regional and local levels, play an important role in the prevention, management and recovery from natural disasters. These jurisdictions are responsible for issuing ...
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Is biorefinery establishment enhancing the EU labour market on a regional level? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Xinqi Zhu, Maria Vrachioli, Edoardo Baldoni, Robert M’Barek, Johannes Sauer
The deployment of biorefineries as part of the European Union’s Bioeconomy Strategy aims at contributing to the transition to a climate-neutral economy and creating jobs and growth in rural areas. ...
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Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ricardo Hausmann
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 5, 2024)
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How much do cluster institutions drive a firm’s green innovation? A multi-level analysis Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jose-Antonio Belso, Isabel Díez-Vial, Gregorio Martín-de Castro, Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver
This research explores the complementary role of formal institutions at the macro-level and informal ones at the cluster level on a firm’s green product innovation. Using mixed methods in a sample ...
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EU Cohesion Policy and spatial governance: Territorial, social and economic challenges Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Vincent Nadin
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 2, 2024)
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What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Paolo Seri, Lorenzo Compagnucci
This paper is the first to present a long-term retrospective overview of the impact of Italian university satellite campuses (SCs), since Decree n. 509 of 1999 fostered a massive increase in the nu...
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Overcoming the dark side of subnational start-up support policies: a pilot project for facilitating cross-border cooperation in Europe Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Carlos Rodríguez-García, Ana I. Martínez-Senra, María Quintás, Xosé H. Vázquez
Business start-up support policies have gained significant attention from policymakers, largely due to their immediate impacts and the positive media coverage they receive. However, the widespread ...
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Third places, the connective fibre of cities and high-tech entrepreneurship Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Kevin Credit, Orsa Kekezi, Charlotta Mellander, Richard Florida
Urban ‘third places’ foster informal interactions and face-to-face contact that is critical to the development of new innovations and start-up businesses. Our research utilises extensive microdata ...
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Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Danny MacKinnon, Vincent Béal, Tim Leibert
Published in Regional Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Industrial robots, and information and communication technology: the employment effects in EU labour markets Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Stefan Jestl
This paper explores the effects of industrial robots and information and communication technology (ICT) on regional employment in European Union countries. The empirical analysis relies on a harmon...
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The geographies of local austerity policies: a quantitative analysis of local budgets in France Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Antoine Grandclement, Ludovic Halbert, Félix Adisson, Vincent Lasserre-Bigorry, Françoise Navarre
The literature acknowledges the variety of local austerity policies, but has paid less attention to their geographical diversity. This paper questions the theorisation of space in this literature a...
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Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Michele Capriati, Valeria Cirillo, Marialuisa Divella
In recent decades, Europe has experienced a significant slowdown in productivity, accompanied by rising regional inequalities. At the same time, the fragmentation of work and the rise of non-standa...
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Regional resilience during COVID-19: evidence from Colombian exporting clusters Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Marco Dueñas, Mercedes Campi
This study characterises the geography of Colombian exporters and their response to the COVID-19 crisis. We define exporting clusters within departments using bipartite network analysis and communi...
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Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation? Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Quentin Frère, Lionel Védrine
This paper proposes a theoretical model of voluntary intermunicipal cooperation and empirically tests its assertions through the French municipalities’ choices of transferring their competences to ...
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COVID-19 vaccination rates and neighbourhoods: evidence from Sweden Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Charlotta Mellander, Johan Klaesson, José Lobo, Sofia Wixe
This paper investigates neighbourhood characteristics related to an individual’s likelihood of getting the first COVID-19 vaccination and implementing official recommendations for the three-shot va...
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Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Miquel Vidal-Bover
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a surge in the number and scope of governmental interventions in both centralised and decentralised states. While decentralisation theories and recent empirical studie...
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A capability-approach perspective on regional development Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Maria Abreu, Flavio Comim, Calvin Jones
We argue for a broader and more deliberative regional policymaking process that can be used to better identify the needs of diverse left-behind communities and develop appropriate policies. We argu...
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On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Michael Fritsch, Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl, Michael Wyrwich
We investigate whether the development of regional disparities in entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany can be traced back to Roman rule 2000 years ago. We find a lasting positive Roman effect...
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Devolved fiscal powers, increased competitiveness and ‘levelling up’: a simulation approach Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Kevin Connolly, Alastair Greig, Peter G. McGregor, Graeme Roy, J. Kim Swales
The UK levelling up agenda includes a commitment to devolution, but there has been little attempt to model the operation of possible accompanying regional tax powers. We use computable general equi...
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The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, César A. Hidalgo
Did migrants make Paris a mecca for the arts and Vienna a beacon of classical music? Or was their rise a pure consequence of local actors? We use data on more than 22,000 historical individuals bor...
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Handbook on city and regional leadership Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Louise Kempton
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2024)
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Migrants and refugees in Europe: Work integration in comparative perspective Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Micaela Mazzei
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2024)
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Administrative capacity and EU Cohesion Policy: implementation performance and effectiveness Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 John Bachtler, Laura Polverari, Ekaterina Domorenok, Paolo Graziano
The past two decades have seen increasing interest in the quality of government as an explanatory factor for the performance of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy. An under-researched strand of th...
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Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Ivan De Noni, Andrea Ganzaroli
Interregional technological collaboration stands as a pivotal policy tool within the European strategy aimed at fortifying smart and sustainable regional growth. Implicit within this policy framewo...
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The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Angelo Cavallo
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2024)
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Public policies for territorial cohesion Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jacek Zaucha
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2024)
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Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Luis Miguel Rodrigo, Luis Mateo-Peinado
We identify internal migration flows between Chilean regions and analyse migrants’ economic mobility. A data pool from National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey (CASEN) surveys was used to det...
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Contents of volume 57 Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 57, No. 12, 2023)
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Regional Studies Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Published in Regional Studies (Vol. 57, No. 12, 2023)
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Regional technological diversification and the global network of embodied R&D: evidence from the exposure of European regions Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Fabrizio Fusillo, Sandro Montresor, Chiara Burlina, Alessandro Palma
We investigate whether regions’ participation to the global network of embodied R&D (GNRD) facilitates their technological diversification. Filling a gap about the role of global research and devel...
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Ports as catalysts: spillover effects of neighbouring ports on regional industrial diversification and economic resilience Reg. Stud. (IF 4.595) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Jung-In Yeon, Sojung Hwang, Bogang Jun
Recognising the intricate link between ports and regional economies, this study investigates the spillover effects of neighbouring ports on regional industrial diversification and economic resilien...