The Annals of Regional Science

1984 - 2026

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2026, volume 75, articles 2

Beyond crime: evidence on policing and marijuana dispensaries No 1, 33 pages

Sian Mughan

Public data openness and urban foreign direct investment inflows: based on the essential attributes of public data No 2, 32 pages

Huifang Cheng, Songhao Zhang, Chenxiang Hong, Junqi Wang and An Cao

Spatial interdependencies and agricultural land-use transitions in Mexico: a shift-share decomposition (2003–2023) No 3, 28 pages

José Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña, Gustavo Manuel Cruz-Bello, Aldo Daniel Jiménez-Ortega and Pierre Mokondoko

Beyond the city core: spatial drivers of logistics facility location in the e-commerce era No 4, 25 pages

Carles Méndez-Ortega, Cristian Castillo Gutierrez and Eduard J. Alvarez-Palau

A multi-scalar “Point-Line-Area” framework for evaluating industrial agglomeration: a case study of China’s Yellow River π-shaped curve area No 5, 22 pages

Yifang Sun

How urban polycentricity influences supply chain risk: evidence from China No 6, 35 pages

Xiaohang Ren, Yu Ling, Ya Xiao and Yu Gong

Resilience and post-traumatic growth: a historical exploration of economic resilience through four conceptual frameworks No 7, 35 pages

Luigi Capoani

Trump digs votes: the role of Trump’s coal campaign in the 2016 presidential election No 8, 66 pages

Philipp Steinbrunner, Marina Di Giacomo and Wolfgang Nagl

Do enforcement institutions matter for economic specialization? province-level evidence from Spain No 9, 37 pages

Juan Mora-Sanguinetti and Rok Spruk

2026, volume 75, articles 1

EU funds and TFP growth: how the impact changed over time and space No 1, 35 pages

Federico Aresu, Emanuela Marrocu and Raffaele Paci

Skill-related thickness and employment growth in China’s urban labour market No 10, 31 pages

Xiaozhen Qin, Jianfu Shen, Eddie Hui and Xun Li

Digital divide and income inequality: causal evidence from Italian provinces No 11, 45 pages

Angela Stefania Bergantino, Giulio Fusco, Mario Intini and Gianluca Monturano

Industrial collaborative agglomeration and green innovation: spatial interactions and regional impacts No 12, 28 pages

Jiaqi Qin, Wenjing Luo and Qian Cheng

Local development and cultural policies: measuring the economic impact of regional film commissions No 13, 31 pages

Paolo Seri, Giulio Pedrini and Riccardo Persio

Tax policy uncertainty and green total factor productivity: a spatial analysis based on prefecture-level city data No 14, 42 pages

Wei Que and Yanni Yu

Evaluating the impact of road infrastructure on urban expansion in China No 15, 26 pages

Yixuan Wang

Regional patterns of growth during the Great Recession: the limits of resilience analysis to understand a systemic crisis No 16, 37 pages

Gilles Van Hamme and Quentin David

Auto ownership rationing and willingness to pay for subway proximity: a hedonic analysis No 17, 23 pages

Tianyun Zhu and Hui Luo

Regional allocation of public infrastructure in Spain during Francoism: political and economic determinants (1940–1975) No 18, 35 pages

Adolfo Cristobal-Campoamor

The role of related and unrelated variety in regional economic resilience: insights from Turkish regions No 19, 51 pages

İbrahim Tuğrul Çınar and Yusuf Ünsal

Regional economic inequality in Egypt: A Kuznets curve, convergence, or shock-driven decline? No 2, 29 pages

Hussein Suleiman and Yilin Chen

Relatedness and regional specialization in green, digital, and twin economic activities: evidence from the UK No 20, 43 pages

Gloria Cicerone, Sebastian Losacker and Raquel Ortega-Argilés

From optimal to efficient tourism flows in cities: an urban economics perspective No 21, 21 pages

Roberta Capello, Silvia Cerisola and Elisa Panzera

Forecasting inflation in a warming world: regional heterogeneity and machine learning evidence from Asia No 22, 33 pages

Suleiman Mamman

An anatomy of labor market dynamics in the French Overseas Regions: a flow-based approach No 23, 35 pages

Idriss Fontaine

Heterogeneity in the productivity of French construction firms: a multilevel analysis No 24, 25 pages

Abdoulaye Kané and Nadine Levratto

Structural stability of regional attractiveness: a case study of Japan No 25, 26 pages

Qinhua Wu

Unraveling region effects with a new Spatial Multifactor Partitioning method No 26, 18 pages

Claudia Montanía

Occupational agglomeration and R&D worker mobility: career opportunities and wage premiums No 27, 29 pages

Yifei Wang

Internal migration and relocation aversion No 28, 30 pages

Axel Watanabe

Long-term attitudes toward science in Italian regions: the influence of religion No 29, 37 pages

Alfredo Del Monte, Sara Moccia and Luca Pennacchio

Realizing economic growth and carbon reduction: what is the potential for distributed photovoltaic construction? No 3, 29 pages

Junjie Zhen and Yubao Wang

Knowledge flows through text data: the case of Milan’s tech ecosystem No 30, 22 pages

Alessandro Marra, Andrea D’Isidoro and Alessandro Sarra

The impact of China’s spatial correlation network of digital industry on the manufacturing industry transfer: based on the analysis of network centrality No 31, 27 pages

Xiaozhuang Li and Guozhu Li

Unveiling dynamic economic resilience: a commercial district-level analysis of sales recovery in Seoul, Korea No 32, 37 pages

Mijin Choo and D. K. Yoon

Exploring Okun’s Law during COVID-19: did divergent US state responses shape economic shifts? No 33, 25 pages

Adolfo Maza

Dynamics and long-run evolution of FDI in prefectural Chinese cities vis-à-vis industrial structure, GDP per capita, and population factors No 34, 25 pages

Michal Wojewodzki, Yujie Zeng, Tsun Se Cheong and Xing Shi

The path to regional coordinated development: unexpected benefits from government seat relocation No 35, 43 pages

Cong Zhang, Zhaojie Han and Chunlai Yuan

The spatial extent of human capital spillovers: evidence from the Brazilian labor market No 36, 41 pages

Edilberto Almeida, Raul da Mota Silveira Neto and Roberta de Moraes Rocha

Evaluating the spatiotemporal impacts of urban spatial structure on urban vitality: an exploratory study using big geo-data No 37, 30 pages

Tianwen Li, Xiaohui Wang, Longsheng Wang, Yu Ye, Yige Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang and Shimou Yao

Does private supply drive personal health choices? A spatial approach of health tax detractions at the municipal level No 38, 31 pages

Mauro Marè, Francesco Porcelli and Francesco Vidoli

How does digital infrastructure construction boost economic development?—evidence from the perspectives of living environment governance and modern industrial system construction No 39, 37 pages

Xuan Du and Fangyi Jiao

Agents of digitalization: gendered employment patterns and broadband access across Asian economies No 4, 28 pages

Cosimo Magazzino, Benedetta Coluccia, Donatella Porrini and Tulia Gattone

Building traction for challenge-led innovation policy: the promise of local missions No 40, 23 pages

Matthijs Janssen, Philip McCann and Johan Stierna

Does population aging hinder regional innovation? A perspective on complementarity and substitution effects No 41, 28 pages

Min Zhang and Xiaochen Zhang

Non-economic motivation for international migration: a decennial investigation of Korean family migration to the U.S No 5, 32 pages

JiYoung Park, JongSoo Lee and SeongWoo Lee

The effect of higher education dropout on building regional intellectual capital: A Portuguese case study No 6, 27 pages

Joana Fernandes

Spatial dynamics of gross domestic product per capita in Brazilian municipalities No 7, 30 pages

Luan Marca, Luis Fernando Tavares Vieira Braga, Adelar Fochezatto and Augusto Mussi Alvim

KIBS agglomeration and labor productivity in the Chilean mining sector No 8, 32 pages

Kenneth Castillo-Hidalgo

Does Zipf’s law account for the size distribution of subcenters within metropolitan regions? Evidence from the US No 9, 23 pages

Taner Osman