The Annals of Regional Science

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2025, volume 74, articles 2

Heterogeneous labour market trajectories in the EU: convergence, divergence and stagnation across regions No 1, 32 pages

Kamila Borsekova, Samuel Korony and Hans Westlund

Migrations in Spain: econometric models with demographic and economic variables (1950–2021) No 2, 22 pages

Ana Gutiérrez Sanchis, Paula Remoaldo and Carlos Martinez- de-Ibarreta

Income inequality in Italian regions: an empirical study on the mitigating role of organisation-based volunteering No 3, 25 pages

Umberto Maggio, Giuseppe Notarstefano and Giuseppe Terzo

The urban wage premium in a labor market with informality No 4, 28 pages

Eloiza Almeida, Veneziano Araújo and Solange Gonçalves

Try another municipality or leave the country? A disaggregated approach to determinants of internal migration and emigration for immigrants and natives in Norway No 5, 29 pages

Terje Skjerpen and Marianne Tønnessen

2025, volume 74, articles 1

Regional analysis of business agglomeration patterns in knowledge-intensive service sectors in Romania No 1, 36 pages

Paulo Mourão and Irina Alina Popescu

The National Civilized City campaign and corporate green innovation: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China No 10, 44 pages

Jiawei Liu, Wei Xu and Zhongsheng Zhou

If you can start a journey, you’re halfway there: on how the literature on the study of territorial agglomerations and sustainability has co-evolved No 11, 34 pages

José María Fernández-Yáñez, Beatriz Forés, Andreas Kallmuenzer and Veland Ramadani

Public capital investment spike events: the regional dimension in Greece No 12, 14 pages

Charalampos Arachovas, Dimitris Christopoulos and Antonis Rovolis

The KFLQ revisited: estimating regional input–output tables for regions in South Korea No 13, 24 pages

Timo Tohmo

The EU’s comparative advantage in the “clean-energy arms race” No 14, 18 pages

Petter Dahlström, Hans Lööf, Fredrik Sjöholm and Andreas Stephan

Regional industrial competitiveness: tales of success and failures from European regions No 15, 40 pages

Roberta Arbolino, Raffaele Boffardi, Mariangela Bonasia, Luisa Simone and Antonio Lopes

The shifting relationship between educational attainment and poverty: analysis of seven deep southern states No 16, 25 pages

Amadeo Panyi, Brian Whitacre and Alicia Young

Economic crises and regional disparities in Brazil in the XXI century No 17, 29 pages

Carlos Azzoni and Gustavo H. L. Castro

Convergence in regional well-being in the European Union, 2000–2021 No 18, 33 pages

Maria-Teresa Gallo-Rivera, Rubén Garrido-Yserte, José-Ramón Boán-Garcés and Tomás Mancha-Navarro

Levelling-up national economies through regional development? a panel fsQCA approach applied to Great Britain No 19, 39 pages

Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson, Malcolm Beynon, David Pickernell and Paul Jones

Analysis of the income effect by the digital divide: focus on Korean farmers No 2, 19 pages

Tongjoo Suh

Analysis of the results of the regional innovation policies of the structural funds on business innovation indicators: does size and role matter in Andalusian business performance indicators? No 20, 29 pages

Diego Sande Veiga

The growth and development of Nordic regional science research 1982–2022: bibliometric evidence from thirteen regional science journals No 21, 36 pages

Charlie Karlsson and Björn Hammarsssfelt

Revisiting the growth poles: regional disparity and population redistribution policy No 22, 27 pages

Jaewon Lim, Daeyoung Kwon and Soo Jung Ha

Willingness to pay for green buildings post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak: differences between high- and low-income areas and high- and low-price settlements No 23, 32 pages

I-Chun Tsai

The role of employment, labour productivity and trade linkages in the evolution of European regional disparities No 24, 30 pages

Danilo Carullo, Paolo Di Caro and Ugo Fratesi

Social capital and regional innovation in the aftermath of crisis: evidence from Italian provinces No 25, 40 pages

Marianna Marino, Sandro Montresor and Alessandra Faggian

Single-family home spaciousness and COVID-19 No 26, 29 pages

Keith Ihlanfeldt and Cynthia Fan Yang

Policies and practices of accessible tourism in Europe: a case study of two municipalities in Italy and Portugal No 27, 24 pages

L. Gavioli, P. Remoaldo and Paulo Mourão

The effects of local street integration on housing quality: the case of Medellín, Colombia No 28, 24 pages

David Londoño and Héctor M. Posada

Paving the way towards predistribution: a study on the introduction of a land value tax No 29, 26 pages

Jesús Olea, David Hoyos and Javier García-Enríquez

Tracking the peacocks: a gravity analysis of the Chinese migration system, 1990–2020 No 3, 31 pages

Yu Wang, Sainan Lin and John I. Carruthers

Similarities and differences in regional determinants of university and industry patents: an analysis of Brazil from 2003 to 2018 No 30, 38 pages

Sarah Ferreira, Renato Garcia and Veneziano Araujo

Examining the integrated sustainability perspective among Russia, UAE, and Iran: using the SEY model to estimate sustainability elasticities and spillovers No 31, 29 pages

Yanjin Li and Yining Zhao

Boosting the accuracy of property valuation with ensemble learning and explainable artificial intelligence: The case of Hong Kong No 32, 28 pages

Lin Deng and Xueqing Zhang

Correction: Tracking the peacocks: a gravity analysis of the Chinese migration system, 1990–2020 No 33, 3 pages

Yu Wang, Sainan Lin and John I. Carruthers

How do regional price levels affect income inequality? Household-level evidence from countries worldwide No 34, 63 pages

Marek Šedivý and Petr Janský

The impacts of privatization on employment, wages, and welfare in the presence of an informal sector No 35, 28 pages

Jiancai Pi, Xinyi Liu and Jun Yin

Revisiting housing asset pricing: uncertainty and business-cycle factors in US state-level housing markets No 36, 25 pages

MeiChi Huang

The impact of subsidy policies for agricultural producer services on the wage inequality within rural areas No 37, 22 pages

Xiaochun Li and Yibo Mao

Unveiling urban spatial dynamics in climate and air quality indicators: a local estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve and the impact of green infrastructure No 38, 22 pages

Yoomi Kim and Joohee Lee

The teleworking paradox: the geography of residential mobility of workers in pandemic times No 39, 27 pages

Pui-Hang Wong, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

Urbanization and subjective well-being of native urban residents: evidence from the “new-type urbanization pilot policy” in China No 4, 27 pages

Dongmei Guo, Shuning Kong, Xin Li, Yiming Liu and Weizeng Sun

The socio-economic consequences of remote working: evidence from the European administrations in Brussels No 5, 23 pages

Andre Spithoven and Bruno Merlevede

The impact of short-term rental activity on house prices: evidence from coastal Virginia No 6, 33 pages

Navid Safari, Lei Zhang and Timothy M. Komarek

Analysis of time duration of civil disputes in Italy: a case study with microdata from Sicilian courts No 7, 30 pages

Giuseppe Vita, Paolo Lorenzo Ferrara and Alessandra Patti

Why are some places developed and other places lagging behind? An analysis of 295 Chinese cities No 8, 26 pages

Zhaoyang Cai, Yang Li and Shixiong Cao

Residential segregation patterns in Istanbul: internal and international migrant profiles No 9, 28 pages

Burge Elvan Erginli and Tuzin Baycan

2024, volume 73, articles 4

A bibliometric portrait of a regional science scholar: in memory of professor Börje Johansson pp. 1365-1393

Charlie Karlsson and Björn Hammarfelt

A decomposition of economic growth decompositions pp. 1395-1408

Jan Oosterhaven

Does private education pay off? pp. 1409-1434

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Rosalie Henry de Frahan

On the relation between urban road network and distribution centre location strategy of Franchise retail firms pp. 1435-1468

Shunsuke Segi, Kiyoshi Kobayashi and Kakuya Matsushima

Reverse causality between urbanization and economic growth: a global test on the validity of urbanization-led economic growth pp. 1469-1496

Abdul Shaban, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

Business services in regional economies: exploring the co-evolution of supply, demand, and sectoral interactions pp. 1497-1516

Börje Johansson and Johan Klaesson

Structural change in city systems evolution pp. 1517-1538

Martin Andersson, Börje Johansson and Thomas Niedomysl

The role of labor discrimination in spatial sorting: the USA as an example of ethnic groups staying apart pp. 1539-1562

Alberto Díaz-Dapena and María José Pérez Villadóniga

Cohesion policy and household income inequality: evidence from the Greek regions pp. 1563-1591

Yannis Psycharis, Vassilis Tselios and Panagiotis Pantazis

Strengths and weaknesses of EU regional reactivity to shocks pp. 1593-1624

Laura Frassine, Nicola Pontarollo and Carolina Serpieri

Evolution of the convergence in the European regions: 2000–2019 pp. 1625-1648

Àlex Costa, Vittorio Galletto, Jaume Garcia, Josep Lluís Raymond and Daniel Sanchez-Serra

The spatial dimension of ageing and growth in European regions pp. 1649-1679

Rosella Nicolini and José Luis Roig

Regional per capita income inequality and fiscal policy in Mexico, 1989–2021 pp. 1681-1699

Miguel Ángel Mendoza-González, Luis Quintana-Romero and Andrea Guerrero-Jiménez

Towards a double bell theory of regional disparities pp. 1701-1728

Roberta Capello and Silvia Cerisola

Unveiling the automation—wage inequality nexus within and across regions pp. 1729-1756

Roberta Capello, Simona Ciappei and Camilla Lenzi

Can air traffic booms induce innovation and bridge regional innovation gaps? pp. 1757-1781

Inggrid and Budy P. Resosudarmo

The uneven geography of the health system and its effect on the individual probability of death by COVID-19 pp. 1783-1809

Grace Carolina Guevara-Rosero, Víctor Hugo Hinojosa and Christian L. Vásconez

Enhancing the resilience of regional digital innovation ecosystems: a pathway analysis from the lens of resource orchestration theory pp. 1811-1838

Danli Du and Xiaojie Jian

Research on distribution dynamics, regional differences, and convergence of development for digital innovation ecosystem pp. 1839-1863

Yabing Ma, Yongheng Fang and Jamin Liu

Rural–urban migration of Alaska Indigenous peoples: changing patterns and drivers pp. 1865-1883

Matthew Berman and Ruoqing Wang-Cendejas

Tech hubs within cities—determinants and dynamics pp. 1885-1916

Vanessa Hellwig

A decision-support framework for industrial green transformation: empirical analysis of the northeast industrial district in China pp. 1917-1958

Heng Chen, Cheng Peng, Shuang Guo, Zhi Yang and Wei Lu

Geography, age, and wellbeing following the COVID-19 shock pp. 1959-1994

Ruoshui He, Jonna Rickardsson and Charlotta Mellander

The rise and fall of urban concentration in Britain: Zipf, Gibrat and Gini across two centuries pp. 1995-2018

Elisa Maria Tirindelli and Ronan Lyons

Occupational specialization, skills, and urban wage premium in Brazil pp. 2019-2057

Everlândia Souza Silva, Diana Lúcia Gonzaga Silva and Roberta Moraes Rocha

Political trust and economic development in European regions pp. 2059-2089

Jonathan Muringani, Rune Fitjar and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Reexamining a classical question: Does development push migration? pp. 2091-2115

Karina Acosta and Hengyu Gu

Kin networks and quality of government: a regional analysis pp. 2117-2142

Roberto Ezcurra

Municipal efficiency spillovers in France pp. 2143-2172

Juan Piedra-Peña, Marie-Laure Breuillé and Julie Le Gallo

Correction to: Ranking the Spanish regions according to their resilience capacity during 1965–2011 pp. 2173-2174

Ferran Navinés, José Pérez-Montiel, Carles Manera and Javier Franconetti

2024, volume 73, articles 3

Introduction to the special issue on the centenary of the birth of Charles M. Tiebout pp. 849-855

Steven Craig, Eric J. Heikkila and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

Tiebout jurisdictions and clubs pp. 857-872

Todd Sandler

Population growth in growing and declining cities: the role of balanced-budget increases in local government spending pp. 873-895

David Brasington

Remote work and location preferences: a study of post-pandemic trends in Italy pp. 897-944

Thea Jansen, Andrea Ascani, Alessandra Faggian and Alessandro Palma

Do businesses “vote with their feet” Too? Examining firm mobility in response to hurricane risk pp. 945-978

Rushaine Goulbourne, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto and Amanda Ross

Public good provision and progressive income taxation in a spatial economy pp. 979-1003

Juan Carlos Lopez and Tadashi Morita

Intra-city Tiebout: the economic consequences of crossed borders pp. 1005-1043

Steven Craig and Edward C. Hoang

Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State pp. 1045-1067

Lee Hachadoorian

Correction to: Jurisdictional homogeneity and coterminous local government borders: a comparison of counties in New Jersey and New York State pp. 1069-1069

Lee Hachadoorian

Exploring variations in local land use regulations in the U.S.: What matters and at what level? pp. 1071-1095

Jae Hong Kim and Jongho Won

Tieboutian clubs revisited pp. 1097-1123

Eric J. Heikkila and Jordy Coutin

Tiebout, Coase and urban scaling pp. 1125-1147

Chris Webster

Tiebout sorting in online communities pp. 1149-1174

John Lynham and Philip R. Neary

Information economies with taste diversity and bounded attention spans pp. 1175-1207

John Conley

Uncovering the impact of cultural heritage on economic growth: empirical evidence from Greek regions, 2000–2019 pp. 1209-1239

Ioannis Kostakis and Sarantis Lolos

The effect of NAFTA on Mexico's wage gap pp. 1241-1267

Mary Arends-Kuenning, Kathy Baylis and Rafael Garduño-Rivera

Information technology, market congestion, and economic geography pp. 1269-1295

Ikuto Aiba

The impact of European regional cohesion policy on NUTS 3 disparities pp. 1297-1319

Ana María López-Villuendas and Cristina Campo

Industrial variety, interregional industrial linkages, and regional resilience: evidence from China pp. 1321-1338

Yuanxi Li

Does new shopping centre development benefit or harm the local suburban market? Heterogeneous effects from shopping centre type and distance pp. 1339-1363

Oana Mihaescu, Martin Korpi and Özge Öner

2024, volume 73, articles 2

Climate change, carbon neutrality: the role of spatial economics pp. 459-466

Jian Wang, Xiwei Zhu and Yong Chen

Carbon emissions from the perspective of regional competition: evidence from China’s low-carbon city policy pp. 467-491

Meng-Ting Chen, Shiyan Zhang and Jiakai Zhang

How does regional integration affect CO2 emission intensity? A natural experiment based on the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta, China pp. 493-519

Kangjuan Lv, Yijing Fan and Yu Cheng

Economic policy uncertainty, firm carbon emissions and regional heterogeneity: evidence from China's exporters pp. 521-555

Qing Liu, Guoyu Ding and Kedong Shu

Industrial clusters and carbon emission reduction: evidence from China pp. 557-597

Ye Liu, Yiyun Wu and Xiwei Zhu

How does digital transformation affect the emissions of environmental pollutants? From the perspective of nonlinear nexuses pp. 599-637

Hongye Sun and Gongjing Gao

The spatial spillover effect of carbon emission trading scheme on green innovation in China’s cities pp. 639-669

Jingru Xu, Xiangjing Tong and Baochen Yang

Is Europe prepared to live without emissions? A dynamic analysis of the energy transition in economic sectors pp. 671-730

Jesús Lucindo, Marisa Feijóo and María A. González-Álvarez

Effects on sectors and regions of a carbon tax increase in Sweden: analysis with an SCGE model pp. 731-756

Peter Almström, Christer Anderstig and Marcus Sundberg

Economic consequences of inland waterway disruptions in the Upper Mississippi River region in a changing climate pp. 757-794

Zhenhua Chen and Junmei Cheng

Climate-related disaster exposure and regional migration pp. 795-824

Yong Chen, Myungjin Kim and Sultana Fouzia

Carbon tax vs. emission trading in a monopolistically competitive market with heterogeneous firms pp. 825-848

Kefu Lin, Rui Pan and Dao-Zhi Zeng

2024, volume 73, articles 1

Unveiling core-periphery disparities through multidimensional spatial resilience maps pp. 1-29

Alexandru Bănică, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

How manufacturing and service industries affect regional inequality? Evidence from China pp. 31-59

Jiaming Li, Jessie Poon, Yuheng Li and Hu Yu

Sectoral–regional resilience and productive specialization: a comparison among the last three crises pp. 61-86

Andrés Maroto Sánchez and Juan Ramón Cuadrado-Roura

Defining an ‘Epidemiological Risk Index’ to analyse COVID-19 mortality across European regions pp. 87-109

Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod, José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez and Maria Llop

Estimation of impacts of volcanic ash fall from Mt. Fuji eruption on freight transport and effects of partial restoration of highways pp. 111-134

Tomoki Ishikura and Shogo Iso

Population growth and taxes: the effect of regional differences in the Spanish inheritance tax pp. 135-163

Rafael González-Val and Miriam Marcén

Intensity of economic relationships: a spatial econometric analysis of regional economic growth in China pp. 165-204

Xiangwei Sun, Geoffrey Hewings and Fei Chen

Space and technology in catching-up economies: “the city as a laboratory for innovation” pp. 205-239

Yong Jin Kim and Chul-In Lee

Welfare costs of shopping trips pp. 241-264

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Capturing locational effects: application of the K-means clustering algorithm pp. 265-289

Doojin Ryu, Jengei Hong and Hyunjae Jo

Governance capacity, related variety and regional economic resilience under the COVID-19 epidemic: evidence from China pp. 291-321

Canfei He and Hantian Sheng

Urban/rural spatial price discrimination with online competition pp. 323-361

Wen-Chung Guo and Fu-Chuan Lai

Firm cooperation policies: the impact of territorial spillovers pp. 363-396

Andrea Caragliu and Paolo Landoni

Impacts of demand and supply-side interventions on South Korea’s housing markets: a dynamic housing-CGE analysis pp. 397-429

Euijune Kim, Ayoung Kim and Kyung-Min Nam

Correction: Impacts of demand and supply-side interventions on South Korea’s housing markets: a dynamic housing-CGE analysis pp. 431-432

Euijune Kim, Ayoung Kim and Kyung-Min Nam

Unpacking technology flows based on patent transactions: does trickle-down, proximity, and siphon help regional specialization? pp. 433-458

Xiangjie Liu, Chengliang Liu and Junxian Piao