The Annals of Regional Science

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2012, volume 49, articles 3

Shift-share analysis and international trade pp. 571-588

Shu-hen Chiang

Uncertain economic growth and sprawl: evidence from a stochastic growth approach pp. 589-617

Belal Fallah, Mark Partridge and M. Olfert

The effects of Seoul’s greenbelt on the spatial distribution of population and employment, and on the real estate market pp. 619-642

Myung-Jin Jun

Demography and evolution of regional inequality pp. 643-655

Tatiane Menezes, R. Silveira-Neto and Carlos Azzoni

Trade and convergence of per capita income in the Indian Ocean Zone, 1950–2008 pp. 657-683

Olivier Peron and Serge Rey

Weighted convergence and regional growth in China: an alternative approach (1952–2008) pp. 685-718

Maria Jesus Herrerias

Industry cluster: spatial density and optimal scale pp. 719-731

Zheng Wang, Changxin Liu and Kejing Mao

Developers’ choices under varying characteristic time and competition among municipalities pp. 733-743

Daniel Czamanski and Dani Broitman

Land use regulations and the returns to low-income homeownership pp. 745-766

Sarah Riley

Institutional, geographic, and facility factors affecting differences in prices for wastewater services pp. 767-788

Suho Bae, Sheldon Gen and Seong-Gin Moon

Agglomeration effect and tax competition in the metropolitan area pp. 789-803

Woohyung Lee and Byeongho Choe

Hub location with scheduling effects in a monopoly airline market pp. 805-819

Akio Kawasaki

A multi-dimensional perspective on social capital and economic development: an exploratory analysis pp. 821-843

Soogwan Doh and Connie McNeely

Heterogeneous duopoly, spatially discriminatory pricing, and optimal location pp. 845-860

Wen-Jung Liang, Yen-Ju Lin and Hong Hwang

Identifying the economic impact behind a cultural asset: an input–output subsystems analysis pp. 861-877

Maria Llop and Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod

2012, volume 49, articles 2

Editorial note pp. 289-292

John Carruthers

Spatial-structure differences between urban and regional systems pp. 293-303

John Parr

“Life is short, art is long”: the persistent wage gap between Bohemian and non-Bohemian graduates pp. 305-321

Maria Abreu, Alessandra Faggian, Roberta Comunian and Philip McCann

The export-base model with a supply-side stimulus to the export sector pp. 323-353

Soo Ha and John Swales

Benchmarking student diversity at public universities in the United States: accounting for state population composition pp. 355-372

Rachel Franklin

Rural roads versus African famines pp. 373-396

Marie-Françoise Calmette and Maureen Kilkenny

International immigration and domestic out-migrants: are domestic migrants moving to new jobs or away from immigrants? pp. 397-415

Kamar Ali, Mark Partridge and Dan Rickman

Spatial patterns in the location decisions of US credit unions pp. 417-445

Steven Deller and Reka Sundaram-Stukel

A Hotelling style model of spatial competition for a convenience good pp. 447-469

B. Eaton and Jesse Tweedle

Exploring movement object patterns pp. 471-484

Alan Murray, Yin Liu, Sergio Rey and Luc Anselin

Integrating the fragmented regional and subregional socioeconomic forecasting and analysis: a spatial regional econometric input–output framework pp. 485-513

Jae Kim and Geoffrey Hewings

The enhancement of spatial microsimulation models using geodemographics pp. 515-532

Mark Birkin and Graham Clarke

An analysis of US State’s export performance in the Asian Market pp. 533-550

Christian Nsiah, Chen Wu and Walter Mayer

Human capital drift up the urban hierarchy: veterinarians in Western Canada pp. 551-570

M. Olfert, Murray Jelinski, Dimitrios Zikos and John Campbell

2012, volume 49, articles 1

Wage-based evidence of returns to external scale in China’s manufacturing: a spatial analysis pp. 1-16

Dean Hanink, Robert Cromley and Avraham Ebenstein

Inter-regional wage differentials with individual heterogeneity: evidence from Brazil pp. 17-34

Ricardo Freguglia and Naercio Menezes-Filho

Specialization, R&D and productivity growth: evidence from EU regions pp. 35-51

Gianfranco Piras, Paolo Postiglione and Patricio Aroca

Convergence of real per capita GDP within COMESA countries: A panel unit root evidence pp. 53-71

Amelie Charles, Olivier Darné and Jean-François Hoarau

Rethinking the impacts of foreign investors on urban development: the city of Macao pp. 73-86

Li Sheng

Logistics and economic growth: a panel data approach pp. 87-102

Zhaofang Chu

A new kind of production and value-added multiplier for assessing the scale and structure effects of demand shocks in input–output frameworks pp. 103-115

João Do Amaral, João Dias and João Lopes

Endogenous product differentiation and product R&D in spatial Cournot competition pp. 117-133

Takeshi Ebina and Daisuke Shimizu

Re-examination of Zipf’s law and urban dynamic in China: a regional approach pp. 135-156

Xinyue Ye and Yichun Xie

‘Compact’ or ‘Sprawl’ for sustainable urban form? Measuring the effect on travel behavior in Korea pp. 157-173

Kichan Nam, Up Lim and Brian Kim

County-level determinants of local public services in Appalachia: a multivariate spatial autoregressive model approach pp. 175-190

Gebremeskel Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin and Peter Schaeffer

Developing regional cooperation strategies by multi-criteria decision making approaches pp. 191-211

Jen-Jia Lin and Yu-Hung Liu

Political yardstick competition among Italian municipalities on spending decisions pp. 213-235

David Bartolini and Raffaella Santolini

FDI and immigration: a regional analysis pp. 237-259

Hisham Foad

The environmental effects of the CNG bus program on metropolitan air quality in Korea pp. 261-287

Soon-Ae Park and Hyunwoo Tak

2012, volume 48, articles 3

Multiple trend shifts and unit roots in US state income levels: implications for long-run growth pp. 641-661

Diego Romero-Ávila

Income dynamics in an enlarged Europe: the role of capital regions pp. 663-693

Sheila Chapman, Stefania Cosci and Loredana Mirra

The impact of oil price volatility on the macroeconomy in Russia pp. 695-702

Katsuya Ito

Locational and managerial decisions as interdependent choices in the headquarter-manufacturing plant relationship: a theoretical approach pp. 703-717

Carlos e Silva and Geoffrey Hewings

Nonlinearities in regional economic growth and convergence: the role of entrepreneurship in the European union regions pp. 719-741

Georgios Fotopoulos

Population and employment location in Swedish municipalities 1994–2004 pp. 743-762

Robert Sörensson

“Ripple effects” and forecasting home prices in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix pp. 763-782

Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

Decomposing geographic accessibility into component parts: methods and an application to hospitals pp. 783-800

Mark Burkey

Bayesian posterior prediction and meta-analysis: an application to the value of travel time savings pp. 801-817

Enrique Moral-Benito

On the regional incidence of highway investments in the USA pp. 819-838

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

Financing roads and railways with decentralized real estate taxes: the case of Sweden pp. 839-853

Roland Andersson and Bo Söderberg

The economic implication of rising transport cost for a small open economy: a case study of Hawaii’s vegetable sector pp. 855-875

Run Yu and Ping Leung

Mexico’s regional output convergence after NAFTA: a dynamic panel data analysis pp. 877-895

Rene Cabral and Andre Mollick

Decomposing the entropy index of racial diversity: in search of two types of variance pp. 897-915

Yiming Wang

Information sharing and human capital efficiency in poor neighborhoods: some graph theoretic applications pp. 917-928

Raymond Lee

2012, volume 48, articles 2

Editor’s introduction to: a scholarly tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Western Regional Science Association pp. 359-362

Janet Kohlhase

The first fifty years of the Western Regional Science Association: the making of the WRSA brand pp. 363-389

Lay Gibson, Robert Monahan and David Plane

Documenting regional science exceptionalism: what’s special about WRSA? pp. 391-403

Rachel Franklin, David Plane and Warren Gill

Central place theory and its reemergence in regional science pp. 405-431

Gordon Mulligan, Mark Partridge and John Carruthers

Strangers in our midst: the usefulness of exploring polycentricity pp. 433-450

Ajay Agarwal, Genevieve Giuliano and Christian Redfearn

Migration and regional science: opportunities and challenges in a changing environment pp. 451-468

Bruce Newbold

What about aging in regional science? pp. 469-483

David Plane

Japan and economic integration in East Asia: post-disaster scenario pp. 485-500

Masahisa Fujita and Nobuaki Hamaguchi

High performers in complex spatial systems: a self-organizing mapping approach with reference to The Netherlands pp. 501-527

Karima Kourtit, Daniel Arribas-Bel and Peter Nijkamp

Local spatial heteroscedasticity (LOSH) pp. 529-539

John Ord and Arthur Getis

The diffusion over time and space of energy efficiency in building pp. 541-564

Nils Kok, Marquise McGraw and John Quigley

Cities in Western Europe and the United States: do policy differences matter? pp. 565-594

Peter Gordon and Wendell Cox

New housing supply elasticity in Australia: a comparison of dwelling types pp. 595-618

Ralph McLaughlin

Are telecommuting and personal travel complements or substitutes? pp. 619-639

Pengyu Zhu

2012, volume 48, articles 1

Optimal fragmentation in monopolistically competitive industries pp. 1-32

Marcus Sundberg

Spatial Cournot competition and transportation costs in a circular city pp. 33-44

Toshihiro Matsumura and Noriaki Matsushima

Collusion in two models of spatial competition with quantity-setting firms pp. 45-69

Stefano Colombo

National oligopolies and economic geography pp. 71-99

Barbara Annicchiarico, Federica Orioli and Federico Trionfetti

Sequential location in a discrete directional market with three or more players pp. 101-122

Chia-Hung Sun

The relationship between real estate investment and economic growth in China: a threshold effect pp. 123-134

Jie Zhang, Jianhua Wang and Aiyong Zhu

The impact of higher education on Texas population and employment growth pp. 135-149

Andre Mollick and Marie Mora

Does Gibrat’s law for cities hold when location counts? pp. 151-178

Boris Portnov, Ben Reiser and Moshe Schwartz

Regional growth in Mexico under trade liberalisation: how important are agglomeration and FDI? pp. 179-202

Jacob Jordaan and Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia

The successes and failures of a key transportation link: accessibility effects of Taiwan’s high-speed rail pp. 203-223

David Andersson, Oliver Shyr and Angel Lee

The determinants of agglomeration for the manufacturing sector in the Istanbul metropolitan area pp. 225-245

Elif Alkay and Geoffrey Hewings

Optimizing subsidies for the location of distribution centers pp. 247-261

Joy Bhadury and H. Eiselt

Environmental inspection proclivity and state manufacturing growth: the US Experience from the 1990s pp. 263-282

Christopher Decker and John Maxwell

The rise of Coastal China and inter-regional relations among core economic regions of East Asia pp. 283-299

Won Kim

Neighborhood spillover effects between rezoning and housing price pp. 301-319

Seong-Hoon Cho, J. Kim, Richard Roberts and S. Kim

On the economic and budgetary effects of investments in SCUTS: the Portuguese toll-free highways pp. 321-338

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

The role of saving and investment in a SAM price model pp. 339-357

Maria Llop