Discussion Paper series in Regional Science & Economic Geography

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2025-17: The role of twin skills in attracting FDI: evidence from European regions

Giulia Martinelli, Andrea Ascani, Stefano Basilico and Alberto Marzucchi

2025-16: Austerity and gender-based violence: insights from England and Wales

María Camila Jiménez Amaya, Daria Denti and Alessandra Faggian

2025-15: Labour market integration of Ukrainian refugees in Italy

Alessandra Faggian, Alessandra Michelangeli and Kateryna Tkach

2025-14: NextGenerationEU lands: Assessing the territorial allocation of Italy’s Recovery and Resilience funds

Francesco Scotti, Carlo Caporali and Davide Luca

2025-13: Green with Anger. Polarised environmental mobilisation and the knowledge economy

Fabiano Compagnucci, Daria Denti, Alessandra Faggian and Arsène Perrot

2025-12: Spatial Structure and Income Inequality in Iranian Provinces: A Cluster-Based Analysis of Complex Relationships

Ali Khodabandeh and Mojtaba Shahabi Shahmiri

2025-11: The Economic Impact of Walking Routes: A Tourism-Led Growth Perspective in Italy

Maria Giovanna Brandano and Martina Dal Molin

2025-10: Shifting Ground: A Counterfactual Analysis of Recovery in Earthquake-Affected Regions

Giulio Breglia and Marco Modica

2025-07: Robotisation, employment and income: the role of firms’ size in the Euro area regions

Fabiano Compagnucci, Mauro Gallegati, Andrea Gentili and Enzo Valentini

2025-06: Remote work and fertility plans: A dual-income household analysis

Thea Jansen

2025-05: The Long Run Effects of Earthquakes on Individuals’ Behaviour and Preferences. A Field Experiment in Italy

Giuseppe Attanasi, Annamaria Nese, Patrizia Sbriglia and Luigi Senatore

2025-04: Cycle, productivity, and efficiency: Evidence from the European regions

Gianluigi Coppola, Sergio Destefanis and Giulia Nunziante

2025-03: Zombie Firms and Competition

Francesco Androni, Andrea Ascani and Gran Sasso Science Institute Marzucchi

2025-02: Assessing the impact of municipal mergers on local public expenditure dynamics in Italy

Carlo Caporali, Politecnico di Milano Scotti, Università degli Studi di Milano Baiocchetti and Alessandra Faggian

2025-01: The geography of the Robotisation-Health nexus Evidence from Italian provinces

Arsène Perrot, Fabiano Compagnucci and Paolo Veneri

2024-18: Tourism Development and Resilience in Italian Municipalities

Giulia Iannone

2024-17: Mid-size settlements in Europe. Definition, population trends, and contribution to regional development

Paolo Veneri, Oecd Burgalassi and Oecd Weingarden

2024-16: Earthquake strikes twice: electoral (dis)advantage in municipalities without economic recovery aid

Federico Fantechi, Ugo Fratesi and Politecnico di Milano Livert

2024-15: Speaking Ourselves Closer: Linguistic Minorities, Social Cohesion and Local Development

Giulia Ferrante, Gran Sasso Science Institute Buzzanca and Gran Sasso Science Institute Perrot

2024-14: High-speed Railway and City Industrial Upgrading in China: A Quasi-experimental Study

Yibo Qiao and Andrea Ascani

2024-13: Is local opposition taking the wind out of the energy transition?

Federica Daniele, Guido de Blasio and Alessandra Pasquini

2024-12: Forced labour in manufacturing and the local industry structure: the case of Italy

Daria Denti and Simona Iammarino

2024-11: Are "green-labelled" HE degrees also socially sustainable? The case of graduates’ employability in Italian provinces

Luca Cattani, Kore University of Enna Pedrini and Dorel Manitiu

2024-10: Between re-renationalisation and hyper-Lisbonisation: the long goodbye to the EU Cohesion Policy original goals

Francesco Molica, Alessandra De Renzis and Sebastien Bourdin

2024-09: Measuring urban inequality in income and working conditions for left-behind groups

Daria Denti, Paola Proietti, Alice Siragusa and Iraklis Stamos

2024-08: Public capital and expenditure efficiency. A regional and sectoral analysis of the last 30 years in Italy

Sergio Destefanis and Giulia Nunziante

2024-07: Symbolic value and external embeddedness of an industrial megaproject: Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Max Roessler, Paula Prenzel and Daniel Schiller

2024-06: The Municipal Administration Quality Index: The Italian case

Augusto Cerqua, Costanza Giannantoni, Federico Zampollo and Matteo Mazziotta

2024-05: The urban-rural job quality differentials

Davide Lunardon

2024-04: Critical Raw Materials and Renewable Energy Transition: The Role of Domestic Supply

George Yunxiong Li and Simona Iammarino

2024-03: Local Justice Quality and Crimes

Daria Denti and Marco Di Cataldo

2024-02: Some (don’t) Like it Hot. Persistent High Temperatures Increase Depression and Anxiety

Alessandro Palma and Giulia Martinelli

2024-01: The Councilwoman’s Tale. Countering Intimate Partner Homicides by electing women in local councils

Daria Denti and Alessandra Faggian

2023-07: Combining Productivity with Economic Resilience in European Regions

Giulia Iannone, Andrea Ascani, Alessandra Faggian and Alexandra Tsvetkova

2023-06: Spatial heterogeneity in factors misallocation: European evidence

Francesca Ghinami

2023-05: Please, don’t go. Local public employee turnover and post-disaster economic recovery

Federico Zampollo, Andrea Ascani and Alessandra Faggian

2023-04: Multinational Companies and Urban Life Satisfaction: Disentangling the heterogeneity of the effect and role of MNCs' economic embeddedness

Piergiorgio Pilo

2023-03: Innovation and zombie firms: Empirical evidence from Italy

Andrea Ascani and Lakshmi Balachandran Nair

2023-02: A dose-response assessment of the labour demand during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy

Fernanda Gutierrez Amaros, Andrea Ascani, Alessandra Faggian and Wessel Vermeulen

2023-01: The more labelled, the more resilient? The role of place branding intangibles in Italian peripheral areas

Fabiano Compagnucci, Alessandra Faggian and Giulia Urso

2022-11: Born to Hit and Run? Rugged Individualism, justice quality and non-stopping after traffic collisions in the U.S

Daria Denti and Marco Modica

2022-10: Welcome to the Punch. Local exposure to refugees and hate events in Italy

Daria Denti and Alessandra Faggian

2022-09: EU structural funds and GDP per capita: Spatial VAR evidence for the European regions

Sergio Destefanis and Valter Di Giacinto

2022-08: The Italian Cultural and Creative Industries following the Great Recession: An exploration of the local determinants of their growth

Maria Giovanna Brandano and Giulia Urso

2022-07: Investment and Employment across the European Regions. An Analysis for Types of Investment

Sergio Destefanis and Naqeeb Ur Rehman

2022-06: Look where they are! Firms’ eco-innovation and Industry 4.0 technologies in urban and rural areas

Luca Cattani, Sandro Montresor and Antonio Vezzani

2022-05: Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion. Regional Evidence from Italy

Gianluigi Coppola, Sergio Destefanis, Mario Di Serio and Matteo Fragetta

2022-04: Inner areas matter: a placesensitive approach for the identification of the Daily Life Spaces in the Abruzzo Region

Fabiano Compagnucci and Gabriele Morettini

2022-03: Green & non-green relatedness: challenges and diversification opportunities for regional economies in Argentina

Andrea Belmartino

2022-02: The cultural and creative economy in Italy: spatial patterns in peripheral areas

Alessandro Crociata, Adriana Pinate and Giulia Urso