Journal of Regional Science

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Volume 53, issue 5, 2013

INTRODUCTION: REGIONAL INNOVATION HOTSPOTS AND SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT pp. 745-748

Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

IN SEARCH OF CREATIVE CHAMPIONS IN HIGH-TECH SPACES: A SPATIAL APPLICATION OF STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT pp. 749-777

Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN LAGGING REGIONS pp. 778-812

Heather M. Stephens, Mark Partridge and Alessandra Faggian

PROFILING U.S. METROPOLITAN REGIONS BY THEIR SOCIAL RESEARCH NETWORKS AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE pp. 813-833

Deborah Strumsky and Jean-Claude Thill

ATTRACTING GLOBAL TALENT AND THEN WHAT? OVEREDUCATED IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES pp. 834-854

Julia Beckhusen, Raymond Florax, Jacques Poot and Brigitte S. Waldorf

THE DEATH OF DISTANCE REVISITED: CYBER-PLACE, PHYSICAL AND RELATIONAL PROXIMITIES pp. 855-873

Emmanouil Tranos and Peter Nijkamp

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND INCOME INEQUALITY: HUMAN CAPITAL MATTERS pp. 874-896

Shu-Chin Lin, Dong-Hyeon Kim and Yi-Chen Wu

CLUSTER POLICIES AND FIRM SELECTION: EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE pp. 897-922

Lionel Fontagné, Pamina Koenig, Florian Mayneris and Sandra Poncet

DOES URBAN PROXIMITY ENHANCE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY? EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE AGRICULTURE pp. 923-943

Chloé Duvivier

Review of Migration and Development pp. 944-946

Fernando Riosmena

Review of The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Re-Scaling Europe pp. 946-948

Sara Hughes

Review of Studies in Applied Geography and Spatial Analysis: Addressing Real World Issues pp. 948-949

Neil Reid

Review of Biofuels and Rural Poverty pp. 949-951

Randall Jackson

Review of Nature-Based Tourism and Conservation: New Economic Insights and Case Studies pp. 951-952

Cheryl Willis

Review of Urban Transport in the Developing World: A Handbook of Policy and Practice pp. 952-954

Bradley W. Lane

Review of Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form pp. 954-955

Harvey J. Miller

Volume 53, issue 4, 2013

THE IMPACT OF MARGINAL BUSINESS TAXES ON STATE MANUFACTURING pp. 557-582

Richard Funderburg, Timothy Bartik, Alan H. Peters and Peter S. Fisher

BORDERS AS BOUNDARIES TO FISCAL POLICY INTERACTIONS? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF POLITICIANS’ OPINIONS ON RIVALS IN THE COMPETITION FOR FIRMS pp. 583-606

Benny Geys and Steffen Osterloh

EVALUATING THE WELFARE EFFECTS OF SCHOOL QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS: A RESIDENTIAL SORTING APPROACH pp. 607-630

Constant I. Tra, Anna Lukemeyer and Helen Neill

GLOBALIZING KNOWLEDGE: HOW TECHNOLOGICAL OPENNESS AFFECTS OUTPUT, SPATIAL INEQUALITY, AND WELFARE LEVELS pp. 631-655

Giulio Bottazzi and Pietro Dindo

A NOTE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL REGIONAL EFFECTS OF INCOME INEQUALITY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE USING U.S. COUNTY-LEVEL DATA pp. 656-671

Bebonchu Atems

THE SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF U.S. CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS: STYLIZED FACTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE POLICY pp. 672-689

James G. Baldwin and Ian Sue Wing

MIGRATION AS A WAY TO DIVERSIFY: EVIDENCE FROM RURAL TO URBAN MIGRATION IN THE U.S pp. 690-711

Mohammad Arzaghi and Anil Rupasingha

SPATIAL SCOPE OF A MODERN TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY pp. 712-723

Armando Garcia Pires and José Pontes

Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations, edited by Gert de Roo, Jean Hillier, and Joris van Wezemael. 2012. Farnham, U.K. and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing. 443 + xviii. ISBN 978-1409403470. $124.95 pp. 724-727

Michael Batty

The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure, by Danny Dorling, 2012. Series: Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. 331 + xlix. ISBN 978-1-119-96293-9, $45 pp. 727-728

André Skupin

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, edited by Philip N. Jefferson. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press. 849 + xiii. ISBN 978-0-19-539378-1, $150 pp. 728-730

Timothy Bartik

European Cities and Global Competitiveness, edited by Peter K. Kresl and Daniele Ietri. 2012. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 317 + viii. ISBN: 978-0-85793-828-2, $126.00 pp. 730-731

Giorgio Fazio

Globalization Trends and Regional Development: Dynamics of FDI and Human Capital Flows, edited by Roberta Capello and Tomaz Ponce Dentinho. 2012. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 285 + x. ISBN: 978-1-78100-303-9, $130.50 (cloth); ISBN: 978-1-78100-304-6, $130.50 (ebook) pp. 732-734

Hans Lööf

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning, edited by Rachel Weber and Randall Crane. 2012. New York, New York: Oxford University Press. 864 + xi. ISBN 978–0195374995. $175 pp. 734-736

Eric J. Heikkila

The City as an Entertainment Machine, edited by Terry N. Clark. 2011. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 283 + vii. ISBN: 978-0-7391-2422-2. $32.95 pp. 736-737

John I. Carruthers

The Immigration and Settlement of Asian Indians in Phoenix, Arizona, 1965–2011: Ethnic Pride vs. Racial Discrimination in the Suburbs, by Emily Skop. 2012. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. 338. ISBN 978–0–7734–2632–0, cloth, $169.95; ISBN 978–0–7734–2632–9, paper, $49.95 pp. 737-738

Christabel Devadoss and David H. Kaplan

Diálogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities, edited by Michael Rios and Leonardo Vazquez, with Lucrezia Miranda. 2012. New York: Routledge. 213 + xxii. ISBN 978-0-415-67900-8, cloth, $165; ISBN 0-415-67901-5, paper, $39.95 pp. 739-740

Luis Leobardo Arroyo

Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities ( 2nd edition ), by Kent E. Portney. 2013. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press. 382 + xvi. ISBN: 9780262518277, $29.00 pp. 741-742

Matthias Ruth

Volume 53, issue 3, 2013

SKYSCRAPERS AND SKYLINES: NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, 1885–2007 pp. 369-391

Jason Barr

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY, KNOWLEDGE FLOWS, AND INNOVATION IN U.S. METROPOLITAN AREAS pp. 392-417

Nivedita Mukherji and Jonathan Silberman

PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE OLD AND NEW EUROPE: THE ROLE OF AGGLOMERATION EXTERNALITIES pp. 418-442

Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Paci and Stefano Usai

THE EFFECTS OF AGGLOMERATION ON WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM THE MICRO-LEVEL pp. 443-463

Bernard Fingleton and Simonetta Longhi

SPREAD AND BACKWASH EFFECTS FOR NONMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITIES IN THE U.S pp. 464-480

Joanna P. Ganning, Kathy Baylis and Bumsoo Lee

ON THE POPULATION DENSITY DISTRIBUTION ACROSS SPACE: A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH pp. 481-510

Ilenia Epifani and Rosella Nicolini

HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS AND THE DEMAND FOR LOCAL LAND USE REGULATION pp. 511-534

Ron Cheung and Rachel Meltzer

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, edited by Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press. 1006 + xx. ISBN 978-0-19-538062-0, $175 pp. 535-539

Roger Bolton

Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California, by Larry N. Gerston. 2012. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. 320 + xxi. ISBN 978-1-43-988012-8, $59.95 pp. 539-540

Michael B. Teitz

Struggling Giants: City-Region Governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo, by Paul Kantor, Christian Lefèvre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch, and Andy Thornley. 2012. Series: Globalization and Community, No. 20. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 333 + xi. ISBN 978-0-8166-7742-9, $90 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-8166-7743-6, $30 (paper) pp. 541-542

John Harrison

Globalization and Regional Growth in Europe: Past Trends and Future Scenarios, by Roberta Capello, Ugo Fratesi, and Laura Resmini. 2011. Series: Advances in Spatial Science: The Regional Science Series. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. 339 + xxii. ISBN 978-3-642-19250-0, $139 pp. 542-544

Wolfgang Polasek

Reshaping Regional Policy, edited by Harry W. Richardson, Chang-Hee Christine Bae, and Sang-Chuel Choe. 2011. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 372 + x. ISBN 978-1-84980 280-2, $135.00 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-85793-592-2, $44.00 (paper) pp. 544-545

Daisuke Nakamura

Making Capitalism in Rural China, by Michael Webber. 2012. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 324 + x. ISBN 978-0-85793-409-3, $150 pp. 546-547

C. Cindy Fan

Housing Markets and the Global Financial Crisis: The Uneven Impact on Households, edited by Ray Forrest and Ngai-Ming Yip. 2011. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 260 + xiii. ISBN 978-1-84980-375-5, $103.50 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-85793-591-5, $31.96 (paper) pp. 547-548

Andy Krause

Innovation and Regional Growth in the European Union, by Riccardo Crescenzi and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose. 2011. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer. 215 + x. ISBN 978-3-642-17760-6, €99.95, $139 pp. 549-550

Zoltan J. Acs

The Geography of Creativity, by Gunnar Törnqvist. 2012. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 215 + xi. ISBN 978-1781001509. $110 pp. 550-551

Melanie Fasche

The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, edited by Chetan Ghate. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press. 958 + xii. ISBN 978-0-19-973458-0, $175 pp. 552-553

Kavita Pandit

Global Environmental Commons: Analytical and Political Challenges in Building Governance Mechanisms, edited by Eric Brousseau, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Pierre-André Jouvet, and Marc Willinger. 2012. New York: Oxford University Press. 435 + xxiii. ISBN 978-0-19-965620-2, $110 pp. 553-555

Sarah Burch

Volume 53, issue 2, 2013

WHAT DO BUSINESS CLIMATE INDEXES TEACH US ABOUT STATE POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH? pp. 220-255

Jed Kolko, David Neumark and Marisol Cuellar Mejia

POPULATION DISPERSION VS. CONCENTRATION IN A TWO-REGION MIGRATION MODEL WITH ENDOGENOUS NATURAL AMENITIES pp. 256-273

Yong Chen, Elena Irwin and Ciriyam Jayaprakash

HAVE DUTCH MUNICIPALITIES BECOME MORE EFFICIENT IN MANAGING THE COSTS OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DEPENDENCY? pp. 274-291

Lourens Broersma, Arjen J.E. Edzes and Jouke van Dijk

THE HAPPINESS-REDUCING COSTS OF NOISE POLLUTION pp. 292-303

Diana Weinhold

SHIPPING COSTS, INFORMATION COSTS, AND THE SOURCES OF INDUSTRIAL COAGGLOMERATION pp. 304-331

Ryan Gallagher

URBAN GROWTH EXTERNALITIES AND NEIGHBORHOOD INCENTIVES: ANOTHER CAUSE OF URBAN SPRAWL? pp. 332-348

Matthias Cinyabuguma and Virginia McConnell

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future, by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, and Meera Balarajan pp. 349-351

James Raymer

Brain Drain and Brain Gain: The Global Competition to Attract High-Skilled Migrants, edited by Tito Boeri, Herbert Brücker, Frédéric Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport pp. 351-353

David Andersson

Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect, by Robert J. Sampson pp. 353-355

John Logan

The Relational Economy: Geographies of Knowing and Learning, by Harald Bathelt and Johannes Glückler pp. 355-357

Roger Bolton

Urbanization and Development in Asia: Multidimensional Perspectives, edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur pp. 357-359

Ralph McLaughlin

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn, edited by Peter W. Daniels, K. C. Ho, and Thomas A. Hutton pp. 359-360

Jaewon Lim

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Second Tier Regions, by Heike Mayer pp. 361-362

Maryann P. Feldman and Jongmin Choi

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Regional Development: National and Regional Perspectives, by Michael Fritsch pp. 362-364

Raquel Ortega-Argiles

The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States, by Daniel Berkowitz and Karen B. Clay pp. 364-366

Thomas Oatley

Volume 53, issue 1, 2013

NEW FRONTIERS OF IMMIGRATION RESEARCH: CITIES AND FIRMS pp. 1-7

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri

ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE NETHERLANDS: PRODUCTIVITY, UTILITY, AND SORTING pp. 8-36

Jessie Bakens, Peter Mulder and Peter Nijkamp

IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING BOOMS: EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN pp. 37-59

Libertad Gonzalez and Francesc Ortega

PUBLIC AND SUBSIDIZED HOUSING AS A PLATFORM FOR BECOMING A UNITED STATES CITIZEN pp. 60-90

John I. Carruthers, Natasha T. Duncan and Brigitte S. Waldorf

THE MINORITY HOMEOWNERSHIP GAP, HOME FORECLOSURE, AND NATIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY pp. 91-117

Meagan E. Cahill and Rachel S. Franklin

IMMIGRANT ENCLAVES AND CRIME pp. 118-141

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

IMMIGRATION AND FIRM EXPANSION pp. 142-157

William Olney

DOES EMPLOYING UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS GIVE FIRMS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE? pp. 158-170

J. David Brown, Julie Hotchkiss and Myriam Quispe-Agnoli

WAGE AND MOBILITY EFFECTS OF LEGALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE NEW IMMIGRANT SURVEY pp. 171-197

Magnus Lofstrom, Laura Hill and Joseph Hayes

Foundations of Location Analysis, edited by H. A. Eiselt and Vladimir Marianov pp. 198-199

Alan Wilson

Economic Geography and the Unequal Development of Regions, by Jean-Claude Prager and Jacques-François Thisse pp. 199-201

Todd Gabe

Climate Change and Common Sense: Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling, edited by Robert W. Hahn and Alastair Ulph pp. 201-203

Joseph Aldy

Networked: The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman pp. 203-204

Ate Poorthuis

The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, edited by Martin Peitz and Joel Waldfogel pp. 205-206

James Baginski and Edward J. Malecki

Inverse Infrastructures: Disrupting Networks from Below, edited by Tineke Egyedi and Donna C. Mehos pp. 206-209

Stephane Straub

Global Downtowns, edited by Marina Peterson and Gary W. McDonogh pp. 209-211

Tom Hutton

International Migration and Economic Integration: Understanding the Immigrant-Trade Link, by Roger White and Bedassa Tadesse pp. 211-213

James Dunlevy

Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe: Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics, edited by John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Tom Johnson, Karlheinz Knickel, Karen Refsgaard, and Kenneth J. Thomson pp. 213-215

Tony Sorensen

Geography of Growth: Spatial Economics and Competitiveness, by Raj Nallari, Breda Griffith, and Shahid Yusuf pp. 215-217

Nelly Exbrayat