Workshop in Mumbai on Big Data and Methods in Regional Science

The five days’ workshop on methods in regional science took place in Mumbai from October 20 until October 25 organized by Prof. Sumana Bandyopadhyay from the Regional Science Association of India in collaboration with Prof. Abdul Shaban from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

The workshop involved more than forty researchers from different parts of India, Morocco, the Netherlands, the United States and Portugal. The event was excellent, enhancing teaching, learning and research experiences and diffusing a knowledge on methods in spatial analysis that are very effective in addressing issues in regional science and development.

Participants learn with each other how advanced methodological techniques apply to South Asia and Africa revealing new evidences and discussing how existing conceptual and applied models should be adapted to understand the dynamics of the slums in Mumbai; to perceive the behavior of criminals in prisons; and to grasp the challenges of urban transport and congestion. Adjusted frames of references to create more knowledge on the sustainability and resilience of urban and rural areas in their environmental, social, economic and institutional dimensions, to learn lessons of the circular economy in South Asia; and to find how poverty is evolving. Finally, to understand the technological innovations to improve urban management.

It was a kick off for a renewed regional science in South Asia, combining the science with policy with adequate methods and techniques.

Figure 1. Introductions

Figure 2. Opening address by Tomaz Dentinho

Figure 3. Speakers and organizers

Figure 4. Closing session by Jean –Claude Thill

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter November 2019 can now be found under

https://www.regionalscience.org/images/PDF/Newsletter%202019%20November.pdf

Dear RSAI members,

The yearly NARSC congress, this year organized in Pittsburgh, PA, is quickly approaching and as another exciting Regional Science event is getting nearer I would like to take the chance to update you on three recent changes in the RSAI Council composition.

At the Lyon Council meeting a very important decision has been made. The Council elected Prof. Eduardo Haddad as President Elect of the RSAI. Eduardo will become Vice President as of January 2020, and will work along Prof. Mark Partridge, current RSAI President, for the benefit of the Association. Good luck Eduardo!

The Council also elected a New Treasurer. Our former Treasurer, Prof. Francisco Carballo-Cruz, decided to step down after years of excellent service. The new Treasurer is Prof. Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald. Serena is current President of LARSA, and has a vast experience in dealing with regional science matters both at national and international level. Welcome on board Serena!

Lastly, right after the ERSA congress in Lyon the deadline for submitting applications for being elected Councillor-at-large expired. We received three excellent candidatures, and the turnover in the electronic ballot has been really impressive, witnessing the great interest of the members in the associational life. The majority of votes went to Daniela Luminita-Constantin, Romania, ERSA. Daniela is a historical and founding member of the Romanian section of the RSAI; she successfully organized a RSAI world congress in Timisoara, in 2012, and we are all excited to have her on board. Welcome Daniela!

I look forward to seeing many of you at some of the next RSAI events. In the meanwhile, I am sure you will join me in congratulating Eduardo, Serena, and Daniela for their forthcoming new endevors.

Andrea Caragliu

Executive Director, Regional Science Association International

Eduardo Haddad

Eduardo A. Haddad is Full Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil, where he also directs the Regional and Urban Economics Lab (NEREUS). He is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, Rabat, Morocco.

Eduardo Haddad received his B.A. in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign in 1997. In 1998 he held a post-doctoral position at the University of Oxford. He has served as the president of the Brazilian Regional Science Association (2008-2010), and as the first president of the Regional Science Association of the Americas (2008-2010). He was the Director of Research of the Brazilian think tank Institute of Economic Research Foundation (FIPE) from 2005 to 2013. Eduardo has spent the period January 2014 to June 2015 on sabbatical as a visitor at the Department of Economics (International Economics Section) at Princeton University, and at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy and Planning at Rutgers University. In 2017-2018, he was the Chairman of the Department of Economics at USP. Together with Professor Carlos Azzoni, he founded NEREUS in 2002.

Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald

Serena is a full-time researcher in the "Culture, Politics and Diversity" Program of the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research (CRIM-UNAM).

She published more than thirty refereed publications, has organized 10 congresses at international level and 15 at national level; also, she has participated in 70 national and 45 international congresses.

Her research areas include gender, studies, identity, social representations, culture, motherhood, migration, politics, environment, peace and security, culture and regional development.

She has participated in 11 research projects and worked as a researcher, consultant, workshop worker, therapist and community facilitator, as well as in women's research projects for the pharmaceutical chemical industry. She is the founder of the NGOs Benguna Bee (Female Moon) and Tierra Joven. She is former President of the Mexican Association of Sciences for Regional Development (AMECIDER), and currently chairs the Latin American and Caribbean (LARSA) section of the RSAI.

Daniela Luminita-Constantin

Prof. Constantin is Full Professor of Regional Economics at the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest and acts as Director of the Research Centre for Macroeconomic and Regional Forecasting of this university. In 2001, Prof. Constantin has formed together with her colleagues mainly from the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest the Romanian Regional Science Association (RRSA). Since 2002 RRSA became member of the European Regional Science Association. In 2012 she coordinated the organization of the 9th World Congress of the RSAI in Timisoara. Daniela will take on her position as of Jan. 1, 2020.

ISSUE INFORMATION

Issue Information

Pages: 629-630 | First Published: 29 October 2019

INTRODUCTION

From Cohesion Policy Implementation to European Identity

Roberta Capello, Giovanni Perucca

Pages: 631-636 | First Published: 29 October 2019

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Cohesion Policy and European identity building: Trust as a mediating element

Roberta Capello, Giovanni Perucca

Pages: 637-653 | First Published: 31 July 2019

Mapping citizens' identification with the EU

Cristina Brasili, Pinuccia Calia, Irene Monasterolo

Pages: 655-672 | First Published: 31 July 2019

European identity and citizens' support for the EU: Testing the utilitarian approach

Valentina Aiello, Pierre Maurice Reverberi, Cristina Brasili

Pages: 673-693 | First Published: 10 September 2019

Open Access

EU Cohesion Policy can't buy me love? Exploring the regional determinants of EU image

Marcin Dąbrowski, Dominic Stead, Bardia Mashhoodi

Pages: 695-711 | First Published: 30 August 2019

Economic crisis, Cohesion Policy and the eroding image of the European Union at the regional level

Maciej Smętkowski, Marcin Dąbrowski

Pages: 713-732 | First Published: 30 August 2019

Open Access

Citizens' perception of the Cohesion Policy and support for the European Union

Enrique López‐Bazo, Vicente Royuela

Pages: 733-749 | First Published: 18 July 2019

BOOK REVIEWS

The human and economic implications of twenty‐first century immigration policy ‐ By S. Pozo (Ed.)

Bruce Newbold

Pages: 751-752 | First Published: 27 February 2019

Paul, T.V. Ed. 2019. The China‐India Rivalry in the Globalisation Era. Orient BlackSwan Private Limited. Hyderabad, India. Rupees 1195.00, Hb, 351 pp, ISBN 978–93–5287‐520‐7

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

Pages: 752-753 | First Published: 07 March 2019

Global city makers: Economic actors and practices in the world city network — Edited by Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson

Kyle Farrell

Pages: 754-755 | First Published: 12 April 2019

17th PRSCO Summer Institute 

29-31 July, 2020, RMIT University, Vietnam

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization (PRSCO), the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and RMIT University are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to the 17th PRSCO Summer Institute. The conference will be held from 29-31 July, 2020 at RMIT University in Vietnam. The theme of the conference is “Emerging Technologies in Regional Development”.

The topics of the conference include, but not limited to:

• Blockchain Solutions in Regional Development
• Logistics, supply chain and regional development
• Big Data in regional science
• Emerging challenges for regional development
• Vision and management of sustainable cities
• Energy, development, and sustainability
• Rural and local development
• Accessibility, infrastructure and regional economic growth
• Social capital and regional development
• Agglomeration, clusters, congestion and policy
• Globalization and regional competitiveness
• Migration, cultural networks and regional development
• Social segregation, poverty and social policy
• Climate change and sustainable regional development
• Innovation, knowledge economy and regional development
• Geographical information science and spatial analysis
• Spatial econometrics
• New frontiers in regional science: theory and methodology
• Infrastructure, transportation and communication
• Land use, real estate and housing markets
• Tourism, cultural industries and regional development
• Logistics, supply chain and regional development
• Urban governance and cities regeneration
• City systems and systems of cities
• Advances in I-O and CGE modelling
• Food security
• Global cities
• Southeast Asian regional economic integration

Special Issue

Best papers at the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue in Regional Science Policy & Practice (indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science). All invited papers will go through the journal’s normal peer review process.

Key Dates:

• Deadline for Abstract Submission: 1 March 2020
• Notification of Paper Acceptance: 25 March 2020
• Deadline for Full Paper Submission: 25 April 2020
• Registration Deadline: 9 May 2020
• Conference: July 29-31, 2020

Submission Instructions:

Presenters are invited to submit an electronic copy (either Microsoft Word or PDF) of their papers (in English) with the file names labelled as the presentation title. Papers must be submitted by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.(link sends e-mail).

All submissions will go through a double-blind peer review process and all presenters are expected to discuss a paper and/or chair a session. 

All information at: https://www.rmit.edu.vn/17th-prsco-summer-institute

The Indiana Business Research Center at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, seeks applications for a one-year post-doc position with a possibility of a January 1, 2020 start. The candidate will be responsible for conducting research that will contribute both to the disciplines associated with regional science as well as to the regional economic development project currently funded by the Economic Development Administration at the Department of Commerce.

Regional economies are complex adaptive systems governed by networks of interdependencies, and have non-linear dynamics and trade-off attributes. The incumbent’s research will explore one key tradeoff in particular –economic efficiency and economic resilience.  While the research portfolio will be dominated by work applying a complex adaptive systems framework to model different regional sub-systems – particularly the entrepreneurial ecosystem – the candidate will also research how regions grow, adapt to shocks and respond to information and incentives. The empirical research portfolio will include several regional science disciplines, including entrepreneurship, economic resilience, inclusive growth, access to financial capital together with the determinants of poverty including the roles of automation and global competition, and the interdependence of rural and urban areas.

Qualifications: A PhD in a relevant field -- such as economics, regional science, regional planning or data science with a strong background in economics -- is required at the start of the appointment. The candidate will have extensive training in state-of-the-art economics or a related field and econometric analysis, including spatial statistics, as well as excellent communications and writing skills. Candidates with experience or training in complex adaptive systems are at an advantage. In addition, he or she will have extensive experience with a variety of statistical packages.  The candidate needs to be able to both work well independently and also to function effectively in a team setting.

The Kelley School of Business, one of the nation’s premier business schools, is based on Indiana University campuses in Bloomington and Indianapolis. Founded in 1925, the Indiana Business Research Center is the state’s leading provider of economic and demographic data and analysis. The center has won numerous awards for its informative publications and websites. More information about the IBRC may be found at www.ibrc.indiana.edu.

Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at http://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/8318 . Direct any questions to Jacob Seibel, Indiana Business Research Center, 1309 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Applications received before November 1, 2019 will be given full consideration; however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Indiana University is an equal employment and affirmative action employer and a provider of ADA services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ethnicity, color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, national origin, disability status or protected veteran status.