Regional Studies

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Volume 51, issue 12, 2017

RSA Awards pp. 1747-1747

The Editors

Trade shocks, new industry entry and industry relatedness pp. 1749-1760

Jiaochen Liang

R&D collaborations and the role of proximity pp. 1761-1773

Philipp Marek, Mirko Titze, Clemens Fuhrmeister and Ulrich Blum

Entry, growth and survival in the green industry pp. 1774-1785

Dakshina De Silva, Timothy Hubbard, Robert P. McComb and Anita Schiller

Public support for business innovation in Mexico: a cross-sectional analysis pp. 1786-1800

Juan L. Martinez-Covarrubias, Helena Lenihan and Mark Hart

Industry diversity, competition and firm relatedness: the impact on employment before and after the 2008 global financial crisis pp. 1801-1814

Cong Wang, Jakob Madsen and Bodo Steiner

Depressing dependence? Transfers and economic growth in the German states, 1975–2005 pp. 1815-1825

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Lars Feld and Sarah Necker

Regional policies for innovation: the case of technology districts in Italy pp. 1826-1839

Federica Bertamino, Raffaello Bronzini, Marco De Maggio and Davide Revelli

What drives employment growth and social inclusion in the regions of the European Union? pp. 1840-1859

Marco Di Cataldo and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

The role of EU rural development policy in the neo-productivist agricultural paradigm pp. 1860-1870

Martin Pelucha and Viktor Kveton

The death and life of great American cities / The economy of cities pp. 1871-1873

Gilles Duranton

The spatial order of the economy: An investigation on location, economic areas and international trade pp. 1873-1875

Ronald Martin

Acknowledgement of referees pp. 1876-1887

The Editors

Volume index pp. 1888-1901

The Editors

Erratum pp. ei-ei

The Editors

Volume 51, issue 11, 2017

What drives unemployment disparities in European regions? A dynamic spatial panel approach pp. 1599-1611

Vicente Rios

Social polarization in global cities: measuring changes in earnings and occupational inequality pp. 1612-1621

Owen Crankshaw

Labour mobility and local employment: building a local employment base from labour mobility? pp. 1622-1634

Amjad Naveed, Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen and Torben Schmidt

Agglomeration and workplace training: knowledge spillovers versus poaching pp. 1635-1651

Giuseppe Croce, Edoardo Di Porto, Emanuela Ghignoni and Andrea Ricci

Distinguishing neighbourhood and workplace network effects on individual income: evidence from Sweden pp. 1652-1664

Charlotta Mellander, Kevin Stolarick and José Lobo

Higher cost of living in urban areas? An AIDS-based analysis of food in Spain pp. 1665-1677

Elena Lasarte Navamuel, Esteban Fernández Vázquez and Fernando Rubiera Morollón

Rich regions, poor regions and bank branch deregulation in Spain pp. 1678-1694

José Manuel Pastor, Jose M. Pavía, Lorenzo Serrano and Emili Tortosa-Ausina

Local government spending and service delivery in Indonesia: the perverse effects of substantial fiscal resources pp. 1695-1707

Blane Lewis

Knowledge composition, Jacobs externalities and innovation performance in European regions pp. 1708-1720

Cristiano Antonelli, Francesco Crespi, Christian Alexander Mongeau Ospina and Giuseppe Scellato

How nascent community enterprises build legitimacy in internal and external environments pp. 1721-1734

Ingebjørg Vestrum, Einar Rasmussen and Sara Carter

The conformance and performance principles in territorial cooperation: a critical reflection on the evaluation of INTERREG projects pp. 1735-1745

Robert Knippschild and Alexander Vock

Volume 51, issue 10, 2017

The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier pp. 1443-1453

Jessie P. H. Poon, Jane Pollard, Yew Wah Chow and Michael Ewers

The regional impact of European Union association agreements: an event-analysis approach to the case of Central and Eastern Europe pp. 1454-1468

Vassilis Monastiriotis, Dimitris Kallioras and George Petrakos

Skills and knowledge-based entrepreneurship: evidence from US cities pp. 1469-1482

Haifeng Qian

Do subsidized new firms survive longer? Evidence from a counterfactual approach pp. 1483-1493

Guido Pellegrini and Teo Muccigrosso

Cooperation linkages and technological capabilities development across firms pp. 1494-1506

Marialuisa Divella

Fiscal decentralization and spillover effects of local government public spending: the case of Italy pp. 1507-1517

Rita De Siano and Marcella D’Uva

Extending the FLQ formula: a location quotient-based interregional input–output framework pp. 1518-1529

Malte Jahn

The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions pp. 1530-1541

Andrew P. Kythreotis and Gillian I. Bristow

A science-based sector in the making: the formation of the biotechnology sector in two regions pp. 1542-1552

Antonios Angelakis and Kostas Galanakis

Regional seasonality in Australian house and apartment price returns pp. 1553-1567

Abbas Valadkhani, Russell Smyth and Andrew Worthington

Functionality versus gerrymandering and nationalism in administrative geography: lessons from Slovakia pp. 1568-1579

Marián Halás and Pavel Klapka

State rescaling, policy experimentation and path dependency in post-Mao China: a dynamic analytical framework pp. 1580-1593

Kean Fan Lim

Regional growth theory pp. 1594-1595

Philip McCann

Social justice and the city pp. 1595-1598

Frank Stilwell

Volume 51, issue 9, 2017

Doreen Massey (1944–2016): a geographer who really mattered pp. 1285-1296

Richard Meegan

The sources of the Scotland–Rest of the UK productivity gap: implications for policy pp. 1297-1311

Richard Harris and John Moffat

The post-crisis growth in the self-employed: volunteers or reluctant recruits? pp. 1312-1323

Andrew Henley

Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage pp. 1324-1335

Cathy Xin Cui, Nick Hanley, Peter McGregor, Kim Swales, Karen Turner and Ya Ping Yin

Do market regulations reduce investment? Evidence from European regions pp. 1336-1347

Javier Escribá-Pérez and María José Murgui-García

Don’t stand so close to me: competitive pressures, proximity and inter-organizational collaboration pp. 1348-1361

Daniele Mascia, Francesca Pallotti and Federica Angeli

Economic impacts of São Paulo downtown rehabilitation: a simplified approach with micro-foundations pp. 1362-1373

Ciro Biderman, Bruno Hermann and Fernando Cotelo

Urban sprawl and property tax of a city’s core and suburbs: evidence from Italy pp. 1374-1386

Barbara Ermini and Raffaella Santolini

The economic effect of corruption in Italy: a regional panel analysis pp. 1387-1398

Maurizio Lisciandra and Emanuele Millemaci

Regional determinants of German FDI in the Czech Republic: new evidence on the role of border regions pp. 1399-1411

Johannes Schäffler, Veronika Hecht and Michael Moritz

Regional conditions and innovation in Russia: the impact of foreign direct investment and absorptive capacity pp. 1412-1428

Natalya Smith and Ekaterina Thomas

Should the fiscal powers of the Northern Ireland Assembly be enhanced? pp. 1429-1439

Esmond Birnie and Graham Brownlow

With, without, or against the state?: How European regions play the Brussels game pp. 1440-1441

Oliver Huwyler

Volume 51, issue 8, 2017

Knowledge flows, externalities and innovation networks pp. 1133-1137

Francesco Quatraro and Stefano Usai

Non-linear externalities in firm localization pp. 1138-1150

Giulio Bottazzi, Ugo Gragnolati and Fabio Vanni

The locus of knowledge externalities and the cost of knowledge pp. 1151-1164

Cristiano Antonelli and Alessandra Colombelli

Centrality of regions in R&D networks: a new measurement approach using the concept of bridging paths pp. 1165-1178

Laurent Bergé, Iris Wanzenböck and Thomas Scherngell

Institutional change and network evolution: explorative and exploitative tie formations of co-inventors during the dot-com bubble in the Research Triangle region pp. 1179-1191

Max-Peter Menzel, Maryann P. Feldman and Tom Broekel

Exploring determinants of firms’ collaboration with specific universities: employee-driven relations and geographical proximity pp. 1192-1205

Ina Drejer and Christian Østergaard

Does inventor centrality foster regional innovation? The case of the Swiss medical devices sector pp. 1206-1218

Monica Coffano, Dominique Foray and Michele Pezzoni

Firm performance in the periphery: on the relation between firm-internal knowledge and local knowledge spillovers pp. 1219-1231

Markus Grillitsch and Magnus Nilsson

The geography of duplicated inventions: evidence from patent citations pp. 1232-1245

Stefano Baruffaldi and Julio Raffo

Are knowledge flows all alike? Evidence from European regions pp. 1246-1258

Francesco Quatraro and Stefano Usai

European Union Cohesion Policy and Spain: a territorial impact assessment pp. 1259-1269

Eduardo Medeiros

Greening regional development: employment in low-carbon and renewable energy activities pp. 1270-1280

Grant Allan, Peter McGregor and Kim Swales

Principles of economics, 8th Ed pp. 1281-1282

Peter Sunley

Cities in civilization pp. 1282-1284

Michael Batty

Volume 51, issue 7, 2017

Erratum pp. i-i

The Editors

Universities, knowledge and regional development pp. 977-981

John Harrison and Ivan Turok

Universities and economic development in lagging regions: ‘triple helix’ policy in Wales pp. 982-993

Rhiannon Pugh

Building regions: a resource-based view of a policy-led knowledge exchange network pp. 994-1007

Joanne Larty, Sarah Jack and Nigel Lockett

The governance of regional research networks: lessons from Spain pp. 1008-1019

Pablo Cabanelas, José Cabanelas-Omil, Jesús Lampón and Patricia Somorrostro

Relational regions ‘in the making’: institutionalizing new regional geographies of higher education pp. 1020-1034

John Harrison, Darren P. Smith and Chloe Kinton

Knowledge polycentricity and the evolving Yangtze River Delta megalopolis pp. 1035-1047

Yingcheng Li and Nicholas Phelps

The rule of law and educational choices: evidence from Italian regions pp. 1048-1062

Annamaria Nifo, Domenico Scalera and Gaetano Vecchione

Spatial aspects of education–job matching in Israel pp. 1063-1076

Amnon Frenkel and Eran Leck

The external benefits of higher education pp. 1077-1088

Kristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Patrizio Lecca, Peter McGregor and J. Kim Swales

From the urban university to universities in urban society pp. 1089-1099

Jean-Paul D. Addie

The regional distribution of public employment: theory and evidence pp. 1100-1114

Sebastian Kessing and Chiara Strozzi

Changing commuting patterns in rural metro-adjacent regions: the case of Castilla-La Mancha in the context of Madrid, Spain pp. 1115-1130

Inmaculada Mohíno, Eloy Solís and José M. Urena

Confronting suburbanization: Urban decentralization in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe pp. 1131-1132

Maciej Smętkowski

Volume 51, issue 6, 2017

The impact of European Cohesion Policy in different contexts pp. 817-821

Ugo Fratesi and Fiona G. Wishlade

Meta-analysis of the impact of European Union Structural Funds on regional growth pp. 822-832

Sandy Dall'erba and Fang Fang

Impact of European Cohesion Policy on regional growth: does local economic structure matter? pp. 833-843

Marco Percoco

Administrative capacity or quality of political governance? EU Cohesion Policy in the new Europe, 2007–13 pp. 844-856

Neculai-Cristian Surubaru

The impact of European Cohesion Policy in urban and rural regions pp. 857-868

Luisa Gagliardi and Marco Percoco

Exploring the role of the ERDF in regions with specific geographical features: islands, mountainous and sparsely populated areas pp. 869-879

Benito Giordano

The dynamics of local upgrading in globalizing latecomer regions: a geographical analysis pp. 880-893

Yi Liu

Urban and rural population growth in a spatial panel of municipalities pp. 894-908

Diego Firmino Costa da Silva, J.Paul Elhorst and Raul Silveira Neto

The role of the region in the European Landscape Convention pp. 909-919

Kara E. Dempsey and Stephanie M. Wilbrand

Demographic, political, institutional and financial determinants of regional social expenditure: the case of Spain pp. 920-932

Ana Herrero-Alcalde and José Manuel Tránchez-Martín

Energy and communication infrastructure for disaster resilience in rural and regional Australia pp. 933-944

Julie Freeman and Linda Hancock

Regional inequalities, fiscal decentralization and government quality pp. 945-957

Andreas Kyriacou, Leonel Muinelo-Gallo and Oriol Roca-Sagalés

Employment growth and inter-industry job reallocation: spatial patterns and relatedness pp. 958-971

Gintarė Morkutė, Sierdjan Koster and Jouke van Dijk

Economic theory and underdeveloped regions pp. 972-973

Eric Sheppard

Spatial divisions of labour: Social structures and the geography of production pp. 973-976

Michael Dunford

Volume 51, issue 5, 2017

Local business ownership and local economic performance: evidence from US counties pp. 659-673

Anil Rupasingha

Social capital and interlocal service collaboration in US counties pp. 674-687

Sehee Han

Spatial proximity and firm performance: evidence from non-farm rural enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria pp. 688-700

Nkechi Owoo and Wim Naudé

Individual tax rates and regional tax revenues: a cross-state analysis pp. 701-711

Hakan Yilmazkuday

Electoral cycles in public administration decisions: evidence from German municipalities pp. 712-723

Sebastian Garmann

Amenities and the attraction of Dutch cities pp. 724-736

Harry Garretsen and Gerard Marlet

A gravity model of remittance determinants: evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 737-749

Scott McCracken, Carlyn Ramlogan-Dobson and Marie M. Stack

University spatial competition for students: the Italian case pp. 750-764

Mattia Cattaneo, Paolo Malighetti, Michele Meoli and Stefano Paleari

Effect of constraints on Tiebout competition: evidence from a school finance reform pp. 765-785

Rajashri Chakrabarti and Joydeep Roy

The mismatch between local voting and the local economic consequences of Brexit pp. 786-799

Bart Los, Philip McCann, John Springford and Mark Thissen

Regeneration strategies and transport improvement in a deprived area: what can be learnt from Northern France? pp. 800-813

Aurélie Mahieux and Lucia Mejia-Dorantes

The essence of smart specialization: local economies as computational platforms pp. 814-816

Pier Luigi Sacco

Volume 51, issue 4, 2017

The influence of decentralized taxes and intergovernmental grants on local spending volatility pp. 507-522

Agnese Sacchi and Simone Salotti

Which types of relatedness matter in regional growth? Industry, occupation and education pp. 523-536

Sofia Wixe and Martin Andersson

Industrial complexes in Mexico: implications for regional industrial policy based on related variety and smart specialization pp. 537-547

Amado Villarreal Gonzalez, Elizabeth A. Mack and Miguel Flores

Do agglomeration externalities affect firm survival? pp. 548-562

Roberto Basile, Rosanna Pittiglio and Filippo Reganati

Does embeddedness in clusters enhance firm survival and growth? An establishment-level analysis using CORIS data pp. 563-574

Nicole Litzel

Do closeness and stake increase voter turnout? Evidence from election results in small French towns in Brittany pp. 575-585

Eric Dubois and Matthieu Leprince

Does academic research affect local growth? Empirical evidence based on Swedish data pp. 586-601

Johan Lundberg

Modelling population density over time: how spatial distance matters pp. 602-615

Ilenia Epifani and Rosella Nicolini

Wage flexibility in the Chinese labour market, 1989–2009 pp. 616-628

Lili Kang and Fei Peng

The impact of hard and soft policy measures on new technology-based firms pp. 629-642

Laura Ramaciotti, Alessandro Muscio and Ugo Rizzo

Competitive multi-city regionalism: growth politics beyond the growth machine pp. 643-653

David Wachsmuth

The theory of economic development – An inquiry into profits, capital, credit, interest, and the business cycle pp. 654-655

Michael Fritsch

Economics without equilibrium pp. 655-658

Steven Brakman and Harry Garretsen

Volume 51, issue 3, 2017

Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda pp. 351-364

Ron Boschma

Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda – a commentary pp. 365-369

Dieter Kogler

The South–North Water Transfer Project: remaking the geography of China pp. 370-382

Michael Webber, Britt Crow-Miller and Sarah Rogers

Water, technology, society and the environment: interpreting the technopolitics of China’s South–North Water Transfer Project pp. 383-388

George C. S. Lin

People, places and earnings differentials in Scotland pp. 389-403

Patricia Melo

Industrial renewal in the 21st century: evidence from US cities pp. 404-413

Thor Berger and Carl Benedikt Frey

Regional electricity generation and employment in UK regions pp. 414-425

Jane Bryan, Neil Evans, Calvin Jones and Max Munday

The impact of centralization on pharmaceutical procurement prices: the role of institutional quality and corruption pp. 426-438

Simona Baldi and Davide Vannoni

Entrepreneurial dynamics and higher education institutions in the post-Communist world pp. 439-453

Julia Korosteleva and Maksim Belitski

The income–inequality nexus in a developed country: small-scale regional evidence from Austria pp. 454-466

Mathias Moser and Matthias Schnetzer

Increasing social returns to human capital: evidence from Hungarian regions pp. 467-477

László Czaller

Powerhouse of cards? Understanding the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ pp. 478-489

Neil Lee

The Northern Powerhouse: a commentary pp. 490-500

John B. Parr

Sir Peter Hall: Pioneer in Regional Planning, Transport and Urban Geography pp. 501-502

Ben Derudder

The UK Regional-National Economic Problem. Geography, Globalisation and Governance pp. 502-503

John Tomaney

Higher Education and the Creative Economy: Beyond the Campus pp. 503-504

Paul Vallance

Infrastructure finance in Europe. Insights into the history of water, transport, and telecommunications pp. 504-505

Alfonso Herranz Loncán

Volume 51, issue 2, 2017

Making sense of leadership in urban and regional development pp. 187-193

Markku Sotarauta, Andrew Beer and John Gibney

Leadership and systems of governance: the constraints on the scope for leadership of place-based development in sub-national territories pp. 194-209

Gill Bentley, Lee Pugalis and John Shutt

Governance, agency and place leadership: lessons from a cross-national analysis pp. 210-223

Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer

Place leadership with Chinese characteristics? A case study of the Zaozhuang coal-mining region in transition pp. 224-234

Xiaohui Hu and Robert Hassink

Strategic agency and institutional change: investigating the role of universities in regional innovation systems (RISs) pp. 235-248

Paul Benneworth, Rómulo Pinheiro and James Karlsen

Making sense of variety in place leadership: the case of England’s smart cities pp. 249-259

Alyson Nicholds, John Gibney, Chris Mabey and Dan Hart

Regional higher education institutions in regional leadership and development pp. 260-272

Garri Raagmaa and Anne Keerberg

Emergence of regional leadership – a field approach pp. 273-284

Roger Henning Normann, Hans Chr. Garmann Johnsen, Jon P. Knudsen, Mikaela Vasström and Ingrid Garmann Johnsen

The quality and efficiency of public service delivery in the UK and China pp. 285-296

Minyan Zhu and Antonio Peyrache

Rural banking in China: geographically accessible but still financially excluded? pp. 297-312

Godfrey Yeung, Canfei He and Peng Zhang

What happens when IKEA comes to town? pp. 313-323

Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Oana Mihaescu, Helena Nilsson and Niklas Rudholm

Metaphors of regional policy: cities as engines, multilevel governance in gardens pp. 324-335

Timothy Wojan

Creativity support policies as a means of development policy for the global South? A critical appraisal of the UNESCO pp. 336-345

Rolf Sternberg

Classic books in regional studies: an introduction to the 50th Anniversary Book Review Collection pp. 346-347

Ugo Fratesi

The strategy of economic development pp. 348-349

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Volume 51, issue 1, 2017

Global reversal, regional revival? pp. 1-8

Ivan Turok, David Bailey, Jennifer Clark, Jun Du, Ugo Fratesi, Michael Fritsch, John Harrison, Tom Kemeny, Dieter Kogler, Arnoud Lagendijk, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Ernest Miguelez, Stefano Usai and Fiona Wishlade

Contesting European regions pp. 9-18

Michael Keating

Foregrounding the region pp. 19-30

Anssi Paasi and Jonathan Metzger

Towards a theory of regional diversification: combining insights from Evolutionary Economic Geography and Transition Studies pp. 31-45

Ron Boschma, Lars Coenen, Koen Frenken and Bernhard Truffer

Shifting horizons in local and regional development pp. 46-57

Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and John Tomaney

Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change? pp. 58-68

Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce Steinberg

Uneven and combined development pp. 69-85

Michael Dunford and Weidong Liu

The city as innovation machine pp. 86-96

Richard Florida, Patrick Adler and Charlotta Mellander

Global investments and regional development trajectories: the missing links pp. 97-115

Riccardo Crescenzi and Simona Iammarino

Geographical linkages in the financial services industry: a dialogue with organizational studies pp. 116-127

Eric Knight and Dariusz Wójcik

The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review pp. 128-143

Alessandra Faggian, Isha Rajbhandari and Kathryn R. Dotzel

Can transport infrastructure change regions’ economic fortunes? Some evidence from Europe and China pp. 144-160

Chia-Lin Chen and Roger Vickerman

Future green economies and regional development: a research agenda pp. 161-173

David Gibbs and Kirstie O’Neill

Analysing the regional geography of poverty, austerity and inequality in Europe: a human cartographic perspective pp. 174-185

Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig