Carolina Guevara-Rosero from The Ecuador National Polytechnic School, Ecuador, received the 2022 Peter Nijkamp RSAI Research Encouragement Award for an Mid-Career Scholar from a Developing Country.

Dr. Carolina Guevara-Rosero is the 2022 winner of the Peter Nijkamp RSAI Research Encouragement Award for a Mid-Career Scholar from a Developing Country. She received her Ph.D. from the Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne in 2015, and since then, has been an Assistant Professor of Economics at The Ecuador National Polytechnic School. Her record for being a relatively fresh Ph.D. is striking. Dr. Guevara-Rosero has authored or coauthored fifteen peer-reviewed journal articles, received the 2019 Ecuadorian RSAI section’s Young Researcher Award, and frequently participates in regional science conferences in Europe and the Americas. Carolina’s research focusses on productivity, innovation, and firm location in Ecuador and more broadly in Latin America. Her work is noteworthy for its focus on applied topics with clear policy implications for developing countries in their efforts to achieve higher living standards. Most relevant research on related topics examines advanced economies, meaning Dr. Guevara-Rosero’s scholarship brings a relatively fresh perspective to traditional core topics in regional science. Dr. Carolina Guevara-Rosero’s excellence in regional science scholarship on developing countries makes her a exceptional choice for the 2022 Nijkamp Award.

Congratulations!

The Award recognizes the outstanding potential of an mid-career researcher from a nation in the developing world and in which there is a formal Section of RSAI, and seeks to encourage the development of the early career scholar as a high quality researcher in the field of Regional Science and as a participant in the international Regional Science community.

We are delighted to announce that Call for Abstracts for CERS 2022 Conference is now open! 

The European Regional Science Association – Polish, Slovak and Hungarian Sections, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) invite scholars, experts, and administration professionals to participate in the 8th Central European Conference in Regional Science, with the main theme "Resilience of cities and regions in an uncertain time" that will be held online on 21-23rd November 2022.  

The deadline for Abstract Submission is September 4, 2022. Please note that there is a limit of two presentations per participant. Abstracts should be submitted using the abstract submission portal. 

For information on abstract submission, please visit the CERS 2022 Conference website cers.amu.edu.pl. The list of more than 20 themes, special sessions and young scientist session is available at the conference webpage. 

The conference is open to a diverse worldwide audience, including academics, experts, and policy makers. It aims to bring together research, ideas, concepts, and experiences and provide a welcoming forum for discussing research and presenting different points of view on the contemporary challenges of cities and regions. 

The themes which will be addressed focus on the challenges of meeting the development of urban and regional systems in an uncertain time. Topics such as the economic, social, and environmental challenges in urban, rural, and regional development and transition in uncertain times are essential issues that the CERS 2022 Conference will consider. 

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

On behalf of the Organizing Committee 

“Capital” - a celebrated Romanian magazine for economic and financial affairs -  has included Prof. Daniela Constantin in the 2022 Top 100 Most Successful Women in Romania – Top 10 Most Successful Women in Education and Research Section. The other nine sections include Business, Management, Marketing, Public Administration, Mass-media, Civil Society, Medicine, Sports, and Entertainment. Nominations are exclusively and secretly made by the magazine editors; nominees are then contacted and informed about the outcome of the selection. 2022 is the first year in which an explicit section is dedicated to Education and Research.

Prof. Constantin is Full Professor of Regional Economics at the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest. She acts as Associate Editor of Papers in Regional Science, and serves as Councillor-at-large on the RSAI Council. Congratulations, Daniela!

Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP)

Call for papers for RSPP Special Issue on “The Impact of European Integration in Western Balkan Countries”

Guest Editor

Jolta Kacani - University of Tirana, Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Within the last twenty years most of the Western Balkan countries are diligently following the European Integration process. For the region this process is widely accepted as the main instrument for accomplishing sustainable growth, regional prosperity and a peaceful wellbeing of citizens. The European Integration agenda has been a long social, economic, political, financial, technological, judicial, and environmental commitment empowering great expectations of citizens in the Western Balkan countries.  The European perspective of the Western Balkan countries has been confirmed on numerous occasions by the European institutions over the past twenty years, but in fact, the EU has experienced a gradual approach of its enlargement policy.

Economic and political integration into the EU is a challenging process for the Western Balkan countries, happening simultaneously with technological change, increased transaction with the EU market and blooming of agile enterprises. These new trends in economic development combined with the new and inclusive political agenda has created new bridges among the countries in the region and joint benefits deriving from the EU membership. This situation has contributed to some states to expand and increase their influence in the region.

The scientific journal Regional Science Policy and Practice (https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17577802) that belongs to Regional Science Association International (www.regionalscience.org) and it is committed to promote the development of Regional Science across the globe specifically through the promotion of special issues on nurtured by workshops is introducing a Special Issue call on “The Impact of European Integration in Western Balkan Countries”

The special issue on Regional Science Policy and Practice intends to promote r the EU Integration Agenda, exploring how it is shaping current regional policy research across the Western Balkan countries. The special issue intends to challenge current and highlight new research perspectives to regional development brought by European Integration commitment to promote an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, knowledge, research, information and recommendations between scholars, professionals, policy makers and doctoral students. The organizers warmly invite inputs from researchers, policymakers and practitioners working in all areas related to regional development with particular focus on European Integration perspectives that relate to the following workshop themes and areas.

Special Issue Themes

1. Inclusive growth and regional development

• Regional growth policies and strategies towards EU integration agenda
• Socio-economic inclusion in the region
• The EU’s role in sustainable development of the region
• Growth opportunities for inclusion in the EU market
• EU agenda towards green growth and energy efficiency
• Integrated territorial investments for resilient regions
• Strategies regional initiatives for sustainable tourism and cultural heritage
• Creative industries and regional development
• Transportation networks and accessibility

• Quality of education in Western Balkan countries, reforms, and challenges
• Agriculture and regional development

2. EU Regional Policies and institutions

• Reducing regional disparities and improving regional wellbeing
• Knowledge transfer and
• Good governance in EU institutional reforms
• Regional cooperation in the management of EU funds
• Institutional transformation towards EU integration
• EU policy making and citizen’s participation
• The role of government in developing economic and integration policies
• Governance challenges in EU negotiation process

3. Regional innovation, competitiveness and entrepreneurship

• Smart specialization and regional value chains
• Multinational enterprises and foreign direct investment in the region
• Industrial strategies for creation of regional innovative clusters
• Technological change and diversification
• Social innovation and resilient regions
• Regional digital transformation risks and challenges
• Digital skills and regional sustainability
• Effects of Covid-19 pandemic on regional digitalization
• E-commerce, E-learning, E-business for regional development
• Adaptive and resilient enterprises for faster integration in EU markets
• Structural transformation of operations in innovative enterprises

4. Regional finance, investment and capital markets

• Efficiency and performance of regional financial institutions
• Internal controls and financial reporting for integration in EU markets
• Regional financial instruments for small and medium enterprises
• Effective public finance management for the EU integration agenda
• Sustainable financial analysis and auditing
• Challenges of financial reporting after the pandemic
• Free movement of goods and capital

5. Demographic change, migration, and mobility behavior

• Challenges and opportunities of brain gain
• Internal migration and regional change
• The new geography of regional population clusters
• Structural change and resilience in labor markets
• Urban reorganization new opportunities for peripheral regions
• Networks, interactions and inequalities in cities

Manuscript submission information:

All submissions must be original and may not be under review elsewhere. All manuscripts will be submitted via the Regional Science Policy & Practice online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/rspp/). Authors should indicate in the cover letter that the paper is submitted for consideration for publication in this special issue “The Impact of European Integration in Western Balkan Countries”, otherwise, your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript.

• Submissions open until December 31, 2024.

THE NEW ISSUE OF REGIONAL STATISTICS IS ALREADY AVAILABLE!

We are pleased to inform you that a new issue of the Regional Statistics has been released and now it’s avaiable online.

https://www.ksh.hu/terstat_eng_current_issue

REGIONAL STATISTICS, 2022, VOL 12, No 3.

STUDIES

Adiwan F. Aritenang: The impact of urban characteristics on the spread of Covid-19 in 2020: The case of Java Island cities, Indonesia

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120301.pdf

Rahma Fitriani – Darmanto Darmanto – Zerlita F. Pusdiktasari: A dynamic-time dependent spatial autocorrelation detection for East Java's Covid-19 regional percent of cases, March 2020–March 2021 (Indonesia)

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120302.pdf

Debjoy Thakur – Ishapathik Das: Statistical assessment of spatio-temporal impact of Covid-19 lockdown on air pollution using different modelling approaches in India, 2019–2020

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120303.pdf

Imade Yoga Prasada – Aura Dhamira – Agus Dwi Nugroho: Agricultural land availability and farmer's income in Java Island, Indonesia, 1990–2018

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120304.pdf

Muhamad Rifki Maulana – Harry Aginta: Testing for convergence clubs in real wage across Indonesian provinces from 2008 to 2020

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120305.pdf

Emőke Kiss – Dániel Balla: Analysing national climate change-related documents: Spatial and temporal dimensions worldwide

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120306.pdf

Tekla Szép – Géza Tóth – Michael Carnegie LaBelle: Farewell to the European Union’s east-west divide: Decoupling energy lifts the well-being of households, 2000–2018

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120307.pdf

Dimitrios Angelidis – Athanasios Koulakiotis: Return and volatility spillovers in twelve Eastern European countries, 2006–2015

http://www.ksh.hu/statszemle_archive/regstat/2022/2022_03/rs120308.pdf

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Dear Sir or Madam, 

the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities is looking for highly qualified and motivated students with a strong quantitative background to do a research-oriented internship in its Economic Analysis unit.  

Candidates should be nationals of a OECD member country and be enrolled in a full-time graduate degree programme (Master or PhD) for the entire duration of the internship in economics, quantitative geography, or related fields (PhD level is strongly preferred). 

We encourage candidates willing to apply their analytical skills in a policy context and to better understand what supports SMEs, entrepreneurship, regional, urban, rural and local development to submit their application. 

For more information please consult the internship call here (also attached). The application deadline is 10^th of July 2022. 

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The Economic Analysis Unit of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities 

The Government Finance Research Center (GFRC) at the University of Illinois Chicago is seeking to fill its Associate Director position. The candidate should have research experience with a focus on government finance and budgeting.

The GFRC webpage is here:  https://gfrc.uic.edu/

The job posting is here:  https://jobs.uic.edu/job-board/job-details?jobID=167729&job=associate-director-government-finance-research-center-gfrc&fbclid=IwAR1omatzOSt1zncDyyqso-Mg5Lv03fsPvW03K7go5-fFO553WiE5Ivk4nk0

Description:  This position is responsible for designing, conducting and managing research in the Government Finance Research Center’s (GFRC) priority areas; initiating and supervising new scholarly & research projects; strategic planning and development of new research programs.

Duties:

• Lead GRFC research agenda
• Develop intellectual agenda for GFRC research program.
• Design, conduct, and coordinate research on GRFC initiatives “core priority areas,” etc.
• Coordinate Faculty Advisor Panel in the design of research activities.
• Analyze findings, write research reports, and present research findings to public audiences, policymakers, scholarly audiences and funders.
• Pursue external funding for GFRC research including developing relationships with funders, writing grants and coordinating applications with grants and contracts staff people.
• Develop & promote relationships with peer research organizations in mutually beneficial ways.
• Support all GFRC research agendas
• Meet with faculty to provide scholarly support for research.
• Coordinate dissemination of GFRC & faculty advisory panel research in ways that impact local,  state, and national policy.
• Advancement
• Meet with external constituencies to promote and advance Center priorities.
• Develop & manage relationships with potential funders and donors.
• In consultation of the Director, create, implement, coordinate and support GFRC External Advisory Panel.
• Develop relationships with potential panel members including public officials, scholars, and funders.
• Plan and coordinate External Advisory Panel meetings
• Represent GFRC at campus and non-campus meetings
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

To apply, please visit: https://jobs.uic.edu/job-board/?start=1&per=5000 and Job ID: 167729 and upload a cover letter, CV and the names and contact information for three references by June 23, 2022.

Qualifications:

A minimum of a Master’s degree required ABD (pre-doctoral) in Public Administration, Public Affairs, Urban Planning, Economics, Political Science with a focus on government finance and budgeting PhD preferred.

Relevant experience in research-based organizations required. Preferably in either university, foundation, or nonprofit or civic organization.

Experience in research on government finance and budgeting, or related field.

Strong writing and communication skills, ability to supervise staff, plan and manage budgets.

Preference for demonstrated communications skills, such as publications, demonstrated experience in staff management and budget preparation.

ISSUE INFORMATION

Free Access

Issue Information

Pages: 513-514 | First Published:12 June 2022

FULL ARTICLES

Open Access

Can regional policies shape migration flows?

Augusto Cerqua, Guido Pellegrini, Ornella Tarola

Pages: 515-536 | First Published:02 March 2022

Spatial heterogeneities, institutions, and income: Evidence for Brazil

William Y. N. Suzuki, Marcio P. Laurini, Luciano Nakabashi

Pages: 537-571 | First Published:01 March 2022

Skill‐Relatedness and Regional Economic Development in Spain during the International Crisis and the Post‐Crisis Period

Simón Sánchez-Moral, Mário Vale, Alfonso Arellano

Pages: 573-602 | First Published:17 March 2022

Measuring the efficiency of materials management based on data envelopment analysis approach: the case of Polish regions

Aneta Masternak-Janus

Pages: 603-618 | First Published:14 February 2022

Information communication technology and manufacturing decentralisation in China

Tinglin Zhang, Bindong Sun, Wan Li, Huimin Zhou

Pages: 619-637 | First Published:22 February 2022

Open Access

The Mediating Role of Urbanization on the Composition of Happiness

Cristina Bernini, Alessandro Tampieri

Pages: 639-657 | First Published:18 March 2022

Open Access

Shooting down the price: Evidence from Mafia homicides and housing prices

Michele Battisti, Giovanni Bernardo, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giuseppe Maggio

Pages: 659-683 | First Published:26 February 2022

Open Access

Spatial dependence in the technical efficiency of local banks

Carmelo Algeri, Luc Anselin, Antonio Fabio Forgione, Carlo Migliardo

Pages: 685-716 | First Published:17 March 2022

Political competition, spatial interactions, and default risk of local government debts in China

Cong Yu, Linke Hou, Yuxia Lyu, Qi Zhang

Pages: 717-743 | First Published:01 March 2022

Travel mode choice as a representation of travel utility: A multilevel approach reflecting the hierarchical structure of trip, individual, and neighborhood characteristics

Jindo Jeong, Jiwon Lee, Tae-Hyoung Tommy Gim

Pages: 745-765 | First Published:01 March 2022

BOOK REVIEW

A Behavioural Theory of Economic Development: The Uneven Evolution of Cities and Regions, By Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson, Oxford University Press, 2021, £75/$100 hb. 336 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐883234‐8

Martijn J. Smit

Pages: 767-768 | First Published:18 March 2022

The University of Warsaw is recruiting three Assistant Professor or Postdoctoral positions in Science of Science (including: scientometrics, research policy, science policy, sociology of science, economics of science or science and technology studies). Details are available here: https://www.lbn.uw.edu.pl/job-opportunities

Closing date for applications: June 29, 2022 (Warsaw time).