21 October, 2020

The Call for Application is now OPEN

The ERSA Winter School is back in 2021

It will be jointly organised with

the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Seville) and

in partnership with the ERSA Spanish Section AECR.

The ERSA - JRC Winter School features

Smart Specialisation: linking global challenges to local implementation

26 to 29 January 2021 I Virtual Event

Winter School Website

Who should apply

We particularly welcome applications from young researchers looking for state-of-the art knowledge around the topic of #smartspecialisation, willing to present their research and get precious feedback from outstanding professors and experts.

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Target: Doctoral and Postdoctoral students as well as junior researchers with less than 5 years of experience.

Places are limited to 30 Participants

> Deadline: 15 November 2020

> About the Winter School topic

The ERSA - JRC Winter School 2021 seeks to address the interaction between empirical, theoretical and policy analysis with the following topics, which include (but are not limited to):

Data Analyses

Applied Analysis

Quantitative methodology

#smartspecialisation #S3implementation #greendeal #implementation #transformationofplaces #sustainability #territorialpolicies #regionalscience #EDPprocesses #lessonslearned #monitoring&evaluation

The Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City seeks to hire a new or experienced Ph.D. economist with research interests in regional or urban economics, preferably with an interest in local economic development and understanding differences in rural versus urban outcomes more broadly. Primary responsibilities include advising the Bank's president and senior management on policy issues, writing and presenting research findings in peer-reviewed journals, and writing articles for the Bank's external publications. Qualified candidates possess strong analytical and communication skills, and demonstrate the potential to collaborate with other researchers. A Ph.D. in economics, agricultural economics or relevant field is required. Excellent resources include a collaborative work environment, high-quality research assistants, a high-performance computing environment, and an in-house Federal Statistical Research Data Center (RDC). The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is an equal-opportunity employer. 

The link to apply is here.

Application deadline: 12/1/2020

Integrated Urban Water Management for better resilience in cities - Training Course

7-11 December 2020 (4 hours of learning each day) 
Deadline of application: 10 November

UN-Habitat in collaboration with the International Urban Training Centre (IUTC), Gangwon Province, Republic of Korea are inviting applications from those who are senior decision-makers, city managers and urban development practitioners from Asian and Pacific cities to apply for the International Integrated Urban Water Management training course.

The course aims to provide training participants applicable understanding of the principles of Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) in cities, and how these principles can be applied in an equitable way and help to achieve SDG 6 on improving access to water and sanitation for all, at the same time address higher resilience and sanitation services in the cities, especially in the context of COVID-19 pandemic.

Participants will be exposed to the broad sphere of water actors that participate in the implementation of water services so that at the end of the course, they will be able to initiate the process of developing and applying IUWM action plan in their home cities. The course will give them the tools to analyse their urban and institutional environments in order to select the best choice opportunities for implementing IUWM.

For further information, click here!

REAL focuses on the development and application of systemic economic models at the urban and regional levels. Since 2015, REAL has hosted more than 110 graduate students and visiting scholars from China, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Chile, and Spain among other countries.

Riccardo Crescenzi. Full Professor, London School of Economics, United Kingdom. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Dusan Paredes. Full Professor, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Catholic University of the North, Chile. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |   October 23 09:00 -10:00 am Central Time (US) Join Zoom Meeting by clicking here Meeting ID: 997 1523 2314 Passcode: 923169 Riccardo Crescenzi  Full Professor, London School of Economics, UK "The Impact of Chinese FDI in Africa: Evidence From Ethiopia" We exploit exogenous variation in China’s export taxes to investigate the impact of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia.  Higher sector-specific export taxes in China lead to more Chinese  FDI in  Ethiopian  districts  specialized  in  those  sectors. Combining this variation with the universe of FDI projects and the census of manufacturing firms in Ethiopia, we observe highly heterogeneous effects. Domestic firms competing with Chinese FDI reduce their sales, investment and inputs, as output prices drop. Firms operating in upstream and downstream sectors expand their sales, investment and inputs. To study the short and medium run aggregate impact of Chinese FDI on local economic activity, we build a 20-year district panel combining night lights data from two satellites through a machine-learning algorithm.  Chinese FDI leads to no instantaneous impact on local growth, but significant and persistently positive effects in the medium run. Dusan Paredes Full Professor, Catholic University of the North, CL "Subnational crowding out and mining localities: Does the level of local provision of public goods matter?" In spite of the resource curse provides evidence on the national crowding out generated by mining resource windfalls, little attention has been put on the subnational crowding. This gap is a problem because these windfalls should cover the negative externalities widely spread on these communities. Additionally, these communities have different fiscal responsibilities forced by the environmental, economic, and social costs generated by the mining industry, becoming them in a group of municipalities hardly comparable with the rest of local communities. This article estimates the subnational crowd out of mining resource windfalls on local tax collection according to the different levels of fiscal responsibility using the case of Chile. We employ a panel data for 322 Chilean municipalities between 2008 to 2019 to attribute causality derived from an exogenous rule to assign the mining windfalls in Chile. Our results confirm the crowding out hypothesis, although with different magnitudes: First, per each dollar increase in mining taxes results in a 0.2 US$ decrease in residential property tax. Second, this subnational crowding out doubles in the municipalities with high level of fiscal responsibility, namely 1.0 US$ increase in mining taxes crowd out 0.4US$ in nonresource revenue. Finally, the results for municipalities categorized with low-level in fiscal responsibility not significant. These results call for local policies that take into account the fiscal capacity of the municipalities to effectively disincentive undesirable behavior derived from extra resource revenues.

Week of Innovative Regions in Europe (WIRE) is the main European policy forum for innovation and regional development. The conference provides a platform for policy makers, public authorities, knowledge centers and enterprises to discuss research and innovation (R&I) practices, challenges and opportunities throughout the European regions, with a direct view on the current and future EU funding programs.

This year, the University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism (Croatia) will host the 11th edition of the “Week of Innovative Regions in Europe“ - WIRE XI 2020 in Split, Croatia.

Due to the exceptional circumstances (COVID-19) event will be organised online. The online event is organized under the agenda of the Croatian EU Council Presidency 2020, with the support of European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation and relevant national authorities: Ministry of Science and Education, Split-Dalmatia County and City of Split.

Attend the WIRE XI 2020 online (4-6 November). Register for free > https://wire2020.eu/Registration

Dear members and colleagues of the Spanish Association of Regional Science,

As you know, the circumstances we are experiencing have forced us to postpone our annual meeting to 2021. Hopefully by the fall of next year the situation will be safer and we can meet and enjoy our International Conference on Regional Science. Meanwhile we have organized what I think is a very interesting and dynamic virtual meeting that, although it does not intend to replace our face-to-face meeting, I believe that it will provide us with the appropriate space to generate interaction and reflection from our community.

The theme of this I Online Conference of Regional Science is “Cities and regions in times of COVID-19”.

On November 26 and 27 we will celebrate this online meeting in which we will have an extraordinary plenary conference, given by Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, and an exceptional round table on the impacts on cities and regions of the global health crisis, given by Professors Phill McCann, Alessandra Faggian and Raúl Ramos. In addition, we have prepared poster sessions to discuss our work in progress and a course on geo-referenced data analysis that will be taught by Daniel Arribas-Bell and Federico Pablo-Martí.

I want to thank the great work that the local organizing committee and the scientific committee are doing. You have all the information about this virtual meeting in this link https://reunionesdeestudiosregionales.org/madridvirtual2020/ or in the pdf brochure that we attach with this email.

Registration and participation in all activities is completely free for AECR members.

The cost for non-members is 100 euros, although I encourage you to join for a lower cost and be able to participate in both this activity and all the advantages of being a member of the AECR, including full membership in both the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI).

Write down the dates of this event. We count on your participation. We will send you the call for the poster sessions and other additional information shortly.

Warm regards,

Fernando Rubiera Morollón

President of the Spanish Association of Regional Science

Link to the pdf of the Meeting brochure

The Centre for Research in Economics and Management (NIPE) of the University of Minho, Portugal, is looking for outstanding post-doctoral researchers in Economics and Finance. 

We are offering two positions, for Junior and Assistant Researchers. Applicants to the Junior Researcher position are required to hold a Ph.D. in Finance or Economics, no older than 5 years. The contract is for a maximum of three years. Applicants to the Assistant Researcher position are required to hold a Ph.D. in Economics, no older than 10 years. The contract is for 4 years and can be extended annually for two additional years. Both positions offer internationally competitive salaries including social benefits. Please follow the links for detailed information about the tenders.

Applicants interested in the positions should submit their application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The deadline is October 28th, 2020.

REAL focuses on the development and application of systemic economic models at the urban and regional levels. Since 2015, REAL has hosted more than 110 graduate students and visiting scholars from China, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Chile, and Spain among other countries.

Ting Zhang. Professor, University of Baltimore, USA. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Michael Delgado. Professor, Purdue University, USA. | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | October 16 09:00 -10:00 am Central Time (US) Join Zoom Meeting by clicking here Meeting ID: 997 1523 2314 Passcode: 923169

REAL focuses on the development and application of systemic economic models at the urban and regional levels. Since 2015, REAL has hosted more than 110 graduate students and visiting scholars from China, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Chile, and Spain among other countries.

Sofía Jiménez. Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
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Natália Branco Stein. PhD Student, Graduate Program in Development Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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