Papers in Regional Science

2023 - 2026

Current editor(s): Rosella Nicolini

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Volume 105, issue 4, 2026

The heterogeneous effects of crises on productivity. Regional evidence from the Great Recession

Gianluigi Coppola, Sergio Destefanis and Giulia Nunziante

Mining, labour markets and uneven regional economic development

David Fleming-Muñoz, Lavinia Poruschi, Taryn M. Kong, Amanda Davies, Allison Britt, Linda Robson and Simone Felton

Spatial inequality in elderly longevity: Evidence from Taiwan’s regional healthcare system

Congmin Peng and Jiun-Nan Pan

Spatial distribution of income in cities. Polycentric structure of employment, amenities and spatial effects

Rafa Madariaga, Raymond Lagonigro, Ferran Oró-Aran and Joan Carles Martori

Unpacking regional development in the EU: The interplay of cohesion, institutions, and sustainability

Alexandre Canário Borrega, Maria da Conceição Peixe Rego and Miguel Rocha de Sousa

Climate change, spatial interactions, and the dynamics of regional economic convergence

Juan M. Aristizábal, Carlos A. Astudillo, Gustavo A. García and Gilberto Osorio-Gómez

The geography of misallocation: Spatial patterns and local distortions in Italian manufacturing

D’Isidoro, Andrea and Matteo Rapagna

Wellbeing at the edge: Commuting, gender and territorial disadvantage in Italian Inner Areas

Erica Aloè, Roberta Di Stefano, Marina Zannella and Alessandra De_Rose

Volume 105, issue 3, 2026

Agglomeration and sector composition across cities: Evidence from China

Yuting Bai

The “borrowed-size” effect in carbon reduction: Does the spatial structure of urban agglomeration matter?

Honghong Wei and Ying Wang

Regressive deconcentration and knowledge-intensive business services: New evidence for the Brazilian regional development agenda

Adilson Giovanini and Wallace Marcelino Pereira

Agglomeration of knowledge intensive activities as driver of high skilled inter-regional migration: A gravity model with Spanish labor mobility data

Jose Blanco-Álvarez and Manuel González-López

The geography of the green transition: Performance, vulnerabilities and opportunities

Sebastian Ritter and Vicente Royuela

Volume 105, issue 2, 2026

Short and long-run effects of inter-governmental redistribution of property tax on housing supply

Xieer Dai and Daniel Felsenstein

How contagious are health shocks on political outcomes? Evidence from the 1918 Spanish flu in Germany

Mona Foertsch and Felix Roesel

Evaluating the impact of targeted decentralization on household consumption: Evidence from marginalized and privileged regions in Kenya

Frederick Kibon Changwony

Does labour market area affect local unemployment rates? Evidence from mono-centric and polycentric Italies, 2006–2022

Alessandro Muolo, Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano, Luca Salvati and Gennaro Punzo

Raising cultural participation: Limits and pitfalls of cultural spending in cities

Romain Lerouge and Michela Arnaboldi

Volume 105, issue 1, 2026

Multidimensional measures of quality of life: A comparison of methods using U.S. county-level data

Yang Cheng, Tessa Conroy and Steven C. Deller

Migration and local innovation: Evidence from fine-grained data from OECD countries

Gabriel Chaves Bosch and Cem Özgüzel

The role of the technological capacity of regional partners on technological branching

Suelene Mascarini, Renato Garcia and Francesco Quatraro

Decoding regional dynamics: Institutions, innovation, and regional development in the EU

Kamila Borsekova, Samuel Korony, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Michal Styk and Hans Westlund

Green attitudes and interregional migration intentions: Evidence from the EU

Anastasia Panori and Christina D. Mikropoulou

Do more transport opportunities lead to higher income? The effects of public transit access on transit-adjacent neighborhoods

Yun Li, Mark Partridge and Wanting Xu

Volume 104, issue 6, 2025

The role of spatial structures in shaping regional economic resilience: Evidence from OECD regions based on urban core configurations

Seulki Kim and Euijune Kim

Threshold effects of agglomeration on local business taxation: Evidence from Spain

Jesús López-Rodríguez, Diego Martínez-López and Brais Pociña-Sánchez

Regional institutions and the urban digital divide

Andrea Caragliu and Chiara F. Del Bo

Skills and regional dynamics

Gustavo Henrique Leite de Castro and Carlos Azzoni

The dynamics of household location preferences in Germany

Uwe Neumann and Christoph Schmidt

Dynamic spatio-temporal modelling of tourism impact on income inequality and polarization: Inbound and domestic flows in the EU

Carmen María Llorca-Rodríguez, Amalia Cristina Casas-Jurado, Rosa María García-Fernández and Jorge Chica-Olmo

Difference-in-differences with endogenous externalities: Model and application to climate econometrics

Sandy Dall'erba, André Chagas, William Ridley, Yilan Xu and Lilin Yuan

Paris as a gateway? Spatial inequalities in immigrant integration across French regions

Michel Dimou, Kevin Randy Chemo Dzukou and Alexandra Schaffar

Club convergence in innovation activity — Evidence from the US

Linda Glawe

Navigating change: Residential relocation, commuting behaviours, and built environments

O’Driscoll, Conor

Volume 104, issue 5, 2025

Assessing the local cost of urban climate resilience: An analysis of the Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience (FiDi) Master Plan

Caroline Welter and Daniel Centuriao

A novel method for estimating multiregional input-output tables using data at different aggregation levels

Jonas Westin

Manufacturing automation and its implications for local employment outcomes: Evidence from Sweden

Peter Njekwa Ryberg

Housing market investment in peripheral areas: Evidence from Italy

Giuseppe Pernagallo and Giampaolo Vitali

Gender differences in distance dependence of internal migration

Tatsuya Kusumi

Unpacking the black box of knowledge externalities: intra-MNE networks vs. spatial spillovers

Andrea Ascani, Luca Bettarelli and Laura Resmini

Volume 104, issue 4, 2025

Growth, working capital and refinancing: The geography of post-pandemic regional financial resilience in UK SMEs

Marc Cowling, Ross Brown, Weixi Liu and Huan Yang

Place-based policies and innovation: The contrasting roles of central and local special economic zones

Longfei Zheng

Digitalisation, platformisation and the transformations of local labour markets

Roberta Capello, Simona Ciappei and Camilla Lenzi

Prioritising infrastructure investments based on agglomeration externalities: A methodological framework with evidence from Peru

Pedro Herrera-Catalán, Coro Chasco Yrigoyen and Vicente Royuela

Regional economic impact of the Next Generation European Union recovery plan

Miguel Ángel Almazán-Gómez, Carlos Llano, Julián Pérez, Dimitris Kallioras and Maria Tsiapa

Regional income redistribution in an era of rising market concentration

Roberta Capello, Kenneth Castillo-Hidalgo and Giovanni Perucca

Adolescence socioeconomic segregation and high-skill jobs in adulthood

Sofia Wixe, Charlotta Mellander and José Lobo

Volume 104, issue 3, 2025

The effectiveness of disaster risk management policies in Brazilian municipalities

Pedro Jorge Alves, Ricardo Carvalho de Andrade Lima and Lucas Emanuel

Polycentricity and regional economic resilience: A ridge regression approach

Burcu Değerli Çifçi and Hasan Engin Duran

Product level market power spillovers among U.S. banks

Morakinyo O. Adetutu, Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva and Kayode A. Odusanya

Resilience and recovery in networked economic systems: An ex-ante analysis of susceptibility to aspects of a potential China–Taiwan conflict

Andrew G. Ross, Marko Raseta, Matthias Grajewski and Andreas Kleefeld

Invention volatility and urban systems dynamics

Breandán Ó hUallacháin and Jacob Douma

The 'picking the fittest' approach and spatial dynamics in China’s artificial intelligence regional development

Saverio Barabuffi, Jacopo Cricchio and Alberto Di Minin

Brazilian demographic dividend: A spatial analysis of the role of savings

Marianne Zwilling Stampe, Gabrielito Rauter Menezes, Fernando Pozzobon and Eduardo Grando Sirtoli

The impact of territories on the salaries of young individuals

P. Caro, A. Checcaglini and J.-P. Guironnet

Impact evaluation of broadband investment on coverage and household internet use in rural areas

Ignacio Moral-Arce, María Gorriti and Miguel Gómez-Antonio

Adaptive recovery and regional response: The impact of an earthquake on tourism industry dynamics

Roberto Urbani, Fabrizio Colantoni, Riccardo Persio and Vladislava Stanková

Volume 104, issue 2, 2025

The effect of neighborhood composition on ethnic discrimination in the labor market

Sylvain Chareyron, L’Horty, Yannick and Pascale Petit

Cohesion policy and domestic fiscal expenditure in Italian regions: A sectoral ex-post assessment of the additionality principle

Fabio Mazzola and Debora Gambina

Digital technology and regional income inequality: Are better institutions the solution?

Roberto Antonietti, Chiara Burlina and Andres Rodríguez-Pose

Providing infrastructure when it matters: University proximity at teenage years and educational attainment

Oussama Ben Atta and George Abuchi Agwu

On the impact of next generation EU funds: A regional synthetic control method approach

Daniel Aparicio-Pérez, Priscila Espinosa, Jose M. Pavía and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Labour demand in the wake of a shock: A dose–response approach

Fernanda Gutiérrez Amaros, Andrea Ascani, Alessandra Faggian and Wessel N. Vermeulen

Special economic zones and land misallocation: Evidence from Chinese cities

Yi Cui

Volume 104, issue 1, 2025

Monetary flows for inter-regional health mobility: The case of Italy

Giovanni Carnazza, Raffaele Lagravinese, Paolo Liberati and Irene Torrini

Cultural gravity and redistribution of growth through migration: Cohesion lessons from spatial econometrics and topological data analysis

Annie Tubadji and Simon Rudkin

Political power shifts, varying tax policy, and economic outcomes in a creative region

Amitrajeet Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

Urban sprawl and firm green total factor productivity: Evidence from China

Mufang Xie, Changbiao Zhong and Binbin Yu

Understanding the role of government in regional industrial evolution: Evidence from land supply in China

Zhiji Huang, Tao Shi and De Tong

Corporate ownership transfer and urban economic growth: A study of manufacturing M&As in China

Shuai Shi, Siu Kei Wong, Will W. Qiang and Chen Zheng

Functional upgrading and downgrading in global value chains: Evidence from EU regions using a relatedness/complexity framework

Eduardo Hernández-Rodríguez, Ron Boschma, Andrea Morrison and Xianjia Ye

Regional technological profiles and collaborations: An empirical analysis of joint patents and EU-funded projects

D’Adda, Diego, Donato Iacobucci and Francesco Perugini

Land-use change and Zipf’s law: A novel tool to investigate regional transformations

Michele Postigliola and Luca Salvati

Wrong polycentricity-right polycentricity?: Insights from an empirical study in Tehran metropolitan region, Iran

Abbas Doorudinia, Hashem Dadashpoor and Abolfazl Meshkini

New Challenges Ahead

Rosella Nicolini