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2. Heterogeneous analysis of free trade agreement between Pakistan and China: a policy guideline for CPEC
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Imran, Muhammad, Sattar, Abdul, and Alam, Md Shabbir
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- 2024
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3. Application of statistical methods in socio-economic geography and spatial management based on selected scientific journals listed in the Web of Sciences database.
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Dorocki, Sławomir and Cembruch-Nowakowski, Mariusz
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ECONOMIC geography ,SCIENCE journalism ,DATABASES ,URBAN planning - Abstract
The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of the use of statistical methods and tools in scientific articles related to socio-economic geography and spatial management published in the years 2012-2021. In order to evaluate the intensity and diversity of this phenomenon, a query was carried out using the Web of Sciences electronic academic information database. A preliminary literature search led to the decision to focus on papers published in three selected journals relating to social geography (Geoforum), economic geography (Applied Geography) and spatial management (Landscape and Urban Planning). The paper analyses the variety of the statistical tools used in the studies presented in the aforementioned journals. The frequency and type of the applied statistical methods, computer software and computing tools is correlated with the specificity of the research area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. Different roots, intertwined branches: linking International Business and Economic Geography through the Uppsala Model and Global Production Network
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Oliveira, Renan, Figueira, Ariane Roder, and Silva-Rêgo, Bernardo
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- 2022
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5. Fragmented or engaged pluralism in economic geography?
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Chu, Han, Hassink, Robert, and Yılmaz, Şükrü
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BIBLIOMETRICS ,PLURALISM ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
According to some economic geographers, modern economic geography has been increasingly fragmented over the last twenty years, concerning both its themes and its paradigms. However, so far, no bibliometric analysis has been carried out to quantitatively measure the degree of fragmentation in economic geography concerning paradigms. In this paper, we therefore aim to analyze the state of the art in economic geography concerning paradigms and perspectives based on a combination of a bibliometric and qualitative analysis. We conclude that fragmented pluralism is less of a problem than stated in scholars' qualitative judgments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Microgeographies of assetisation: Realising value of households and residents in co-living housing.
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Bergan, Tegan L and Power, Emma R
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HOUSING ,ECONOMIC geography ,BUSINESS models ,VALUATION of real property ,STUDENT housing - Abstract
Financialised capitalism's proclivity for assets helps explain growing investment into new housing asset-classes, including co-living, Build-to-Rent and Purpose-Built Student Housing. To date, research has focused on institutional and financial settings driving the assetisation of property. Less common is research into the microgeographies of assetisation. In this paper, we contribute to research on the microgeographies of assetisation by examining how households and their inhabitants are actively reworked within co-living housing. Our analysis identifies how households are rendered more investable and profitable, demonstrating how assetisation processes can exceed the bounds of real estate property as an arena of value. Assetisation is intimately navigated in microgeographic sites, with implications for residents' housing security and domestic experiences. Our analysis draws on research conducted between 2016 and 2022 that charted the emergence, maturation and transformation of the co-living sector in New York City, San Francisco and Australia. The paper identifies the three key practices through which co-living providers realise value from households and residents: (1) Running an asset-light business model, allowing profit from property outside the risks of ownership. (2) Rescripting residents as subscribed members rather than legal tenants. (3) Curating household forms, delivering experiences through hospitality-like services and capitalising on the residents as community members to generate maximum profit. This work supports economic and housing geographers to go beyond conceptualisations of financialisation as a 'monolithic and inevitable process', shining a light on microgeographic sites, actors and practices holding up wider financial ideologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Spatial Aspect of Global Value Chain in East Asia: How Ports and Airports Shape Industrial Clusters in East Asia.
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Kumagai, Satoru
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GLOBAL value chains ,INDUSTRIAL clusters ,ECONOMIC geography ,INDUSTRIAL location ,AIRPORTS - Abstract
This paper examines how geography matters for the location of industries in East Asia, employing regression analyses on a novel and comprehensive regional GDP dataset. This study examines how geography affects industrial location patterns, particularly the role of infrastructure, such as ports and airports. This paper analyzes the current economic geography of East Asia using the novel dataset. The regression analyses utilize location quotients as the dependent variable and incorporate explanatory variables, such as domestic/foreign market access, per capita income, population density, and distance-based dummies for ports and airports. The findings reveal that the determinants of industrial location differ significantly across industries. The relative importance of domestic versus foreign market access and proximity to ports and airports varies across sectors. The results imply that countries/regions cannot easily host industries of their choice, as different industries require distinct locational characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. Globalizing research on global cities and international business
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Fan, C. Cindy
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- 2024
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9. Population age structure – An underlying driver of national, regional and urban economic development.
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Malmberg, Anders, Malmberg, Bo, and Maskell, Peter
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URBAN community development ,POPULATION aging ,DEMOGRAPHIC transition ,ECONOMIC geography ,DEMOGRAPHIC change ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
This paper argues that population age structure plays a significant role alongside institutional, technological, political, and cultural factors when it comes to explaining shifts in urban, regional and national economic development. The paper demonstrates how demographic transitions lead to changes in population age structure which in turn correlate with global shifts in economic development from 1950 onwards. It then analyzes the role of population age structure at the sub-national level by reviewing some prominent cases of regional and urban shifts in Western Europe and North America. Population size, population density and migration have always been an integrated part of economic geography, and the consequences of ageing in national and regional economies are increasingly being studied. The specific role of population age structure as a driver of economic development has, however, so far largely been ignored in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. Interpath relations and the triggering of wine-tourism development.
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Flood Chavez, David, Niewiadomski, Piotr, and Jones, Tod
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TOURIST attitudes ,INTERNATIONAL tourism ,WINE flavor & odor ,TOURIST attractions ,ECONOMIC geography ,TOURISM ,INDUSTRIAL research - Abstract
The Margaret River region (Western Australia) is a popular international tourism destination. Since its emergence in the late 19
th century, tourism in the Margaret River region (MRR) has interacted with a number of regional industries including timber, dairy, and wine. These interactions have changed from 'supportive' to 'competing' reflecting various changes in the market and the availability of common local assets such as forest, land, and public funding. While timber and dairy had an important influence on the evolution of tourism in the region, it was the emergence of wine that shifted tourism the most. Using selected concepts of evolutionary economic geography (EEG), mainly path-dependence, path-reformation, interpath relations, and triggering events, this paper demonstrates how tourism has interacted with different other industries and how these interactions have shaped the MRR as a wine-tourist destination. The paper shows how two related triggering events contributed to the emergence of wine-tourism as a new path in the region – a process referred to as 'path-blending'. In this respect, the paper provides empirical evidence that triggering events can result in multiple new paths and can also significantly shape the relations between new and existing regional paths. As such, the paper responds to the call for breaking away with the 'single-path view' in research on industrial evolution, and for more attention to the various relations between tourism and other sectors within a tourist destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2023
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11. Institutional work and institutional entrepreneurship in the Ontario craft beer industry.
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Roy, Kevin
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BEER industry ,ECONOMIC geography ,BUSINESSPEOPLE ,HANDICRAFT industries ,RESOURCE mobilization ,CRAFT beer - Abstract
This paper explores how Ontario's craft brewers created new as well as disrupted and changed existing institutions at local and regional levels in the province's beer industry. Using a relational economic geography framework and a markets-as-practices perspective, this study highlights the brewer's collaborative and pro-social practices, showing how close inter-firm relations and engagement with local communities resulted in resource mobilization such as better access to financial capital and greater social capital, which mobilized public support for the industry, and ultimately which helped individual and collective institutional work efforts succeed. The findings are significant as they show how actors in the industry overcame the constraints imposed on them in an oligopolistic market dominated by multinational firms. It also posits craft brewers acted individually at a local scale as institutional entrepreneurs, revisiting criticisms around this concept. This research contributes to understanding how localized market actors can achieve broader institutional change and offers insights into the relationship between market practices and institutional work, including entrepreneurship in craft industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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12. The geography of climate change risk analysis at central banks in Europe.
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Burger, Csaba and Wojcik, Dariusz
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The potentially limiting nature of central bank mandates, together with non-existent standards to assess the impact of climate risks used to inhibit the incorporation of climate change considerations in central bank decisions. This paper analyses how, despite these challenges, climate change risk analysis spread among central banks by examining 941 European financial stability reports of 38 central banks in Europe and their source references. We show that the Dutch and Belgian central banks pioneered significant engagement with climate change risk in financial stability reports, followed by central banks in other Eurozone countries. Then the ECB stepped in, aggregated novel research methods into an accepted analytical framework, and moved to the centre of the stage of the process. Our analysis indicates that various types of proximity played a significant role in the spread of climate friendly central bank mandate interpretations and analytical techniques, but the engagement of a central player was crucial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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13. Towards a pragmatist economic geography.
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Barnes, Trevor J
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ECONOMIC geography ,PRAGMATISM ,PHILOSOPHERS ,PLURALISM ,CREATIVE ability - Abstract
Following Jamie Peck's remit for this initial set of Exchanges section contributions to present forward-positive approaches to economic geography, I offer American philosophical pragmatism, and more specifically, the neo-pragmatism of the American philosopher, Richard Rorty (1931–2007). Rather than providing a complete architectonic philosophy, pragmatism presents a set of ideas about ideas. Within the context of economic geography, I explore within this short paper three neo-pragmatist ideas: a reconceptualization of knowledge and truth; experimentation and creativity; and pluralism and conversation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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14. An Interdisciplinary and Multilevel Analysis of Local Economy Determinants and Their Impact on Firm Performance—Considering Porter's Diamond Model, Clusters, and Industry.
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Lehene, Cosmin Florin, Jaradat, Mohammad, and Nistor, Răzvan Liviu
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ORGANIZATIONAL performance ,INDUSTRIAL organization (Economic theory) ,REGIONAL development ,REGIONAL economics ,DETERMINANTS (Mathematics) ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
Industrial Organization, the Resource-Based View, and the Relational View are some classical, well-established, and widely accepted theories in the strategic management domain regarding the understanding, explanation, and prediction of competitive advantage of firms and above-average firm performance. Recent evidence of economic geography and regional economics added to this stream of research new perspectives like cluster theory and microeconomic competitiveness. Despite the high enthusiasm with which companies and policymakers embraced the new advancements, there is some contradictory evidence regarding the positive effect of local conditions on firm performance. Thus, in this paper, we aim to empirically test some aspects of a modern regional development theory, proposed mainly by Michael Porter and collaborators, and the impact of these aspects on firm performance. External determinants considered at three levels of analysis (local economy, local clusters, and industry) will be investigated in relation to firm performance. We will analyze empirical data through detailed correlational analyses and by building multilinear regression models. After the statistical analysis of the answers provided directly by 67 medium and large manufacturing companies operating in Romania, we will provide empirical support for some external determinants, while for other determinants, we will show that the data rejected the proposed associations. The main conclusion derived from this study is that different combinations of external determinants, considered at all three levels of analysis, have a positive and significant effect on different measures of firm performance. The findings in our paper are important for both regional economics and the strategic management literature, suggesting the importance of creating local or urban conditions depending on the type of performance that the firms in the local economy are underperforming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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15. Commentary: transitions research and sustainable tourism.
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Köhler, Jonathan
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SUSTAINABLE tourism ,TOURISM research ,ECONOMIC geography ,MANUFACTURING processes ,FOOD tourism ,SUSTAINABILITY - Abstract
This commentary discusses the growing connections between sustainable tourism research and the sustainability transitions literature. The common ground between sustainability transitions and sustainable tourism starts from the problem definition of unsustainability in tourism and the consequent need for system change. Research into sustainable tourism engages with several areas discussed in the recent sustainability transitions research agenda. These include: understanding radical innovation for sustainability that involves (socio-technical) system level change; the politics and power struggles in transitions processes; organisational and industrial aspects of sustainability transitions; the geography of transitions; and ethical/just transitions. The papers in this special issue also show that evolutionary economic geography (EEG) views on sustainability transitions in tourism are in line with the concepts of innovation and change in the multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions (MLP). This should enable a fruitful interaction between the two fields of sustinability transitions and sustainable touism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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16. Transitioning towards sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides: an evolutionary investigation.
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Niewiadomski, Piotr and Mellon, Victoria
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SUSTAINABLE tourism ,TOURIST attractions ,SOCIAL disorganization ,ECONOMIC geography ,SOCIAL goals ,PLACE attachment (Psychology) ,REFERENDUM - Abstract
While there is rich research on tourism destination evolution, the literature on how normative social and environmental goals (as opposed to contingent events or economic imperatives) drive the evolution of tourism towards more sustainable forms remains under-developed. As a result, the overall understanding of how sustainability in tourism is pursued on the ground and what context-specific factors shape these processes is still insufficient. To address this lacuna, the paper draws upon the sustainability transitions (ST) agenda that focuses on the ground level processes of transitions and conceptualises sustainability transitions as multi-actor, multi-dimensional, evolutionary, disruptive and contested processes. As such, the paper offers a constructive response to Niewiadomski and Brouder's (2022) call for bridging the gap between the research on tourism evolution and the sustainability transitions agenda. More specifically, the paper adopts selected concepts of evolutionary economic geography (EEG) (which have long proved helpful in research on both tourism evolution and sustainability transitions) to address how sustainability in tourism is mindfully pursued in the Outer Hebrides (Scotland, UK) and what geographical and historical factors shape this transition. The analysis draws from 17 semi-structured interviews (conducted in 2020-2021 with tourism businesses and various organisations involved in tourism in the Outer Hebrides) and documentary analysis. Two main groups of place- and path-dependent factors that shape the ongoing transition to sustainable tourism in the Outer Hebrides are identified: 1) institutional and social fragmentation, and 2) infrastructural deficiencies and challenges. The paper finds that the transition to sustainability in tourism in the Outer Hebrides is fragmented and intermittent. Although numerous promising changes are taking place, the transition suffers from a lack of systemic and systematic governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. Entrepreneurship and geography—some thoughts about a complex relationship
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Rolf Sternberg
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economic geography ,L26 ,R19 ,Special Issue Paper ,entrepreneur ,regional economy ,General Social Sciences ,ddc:500 ,academic research ,R11 ,Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
This review article sheds a light on the complex and hitherto under-researched relationship between geography and entrepreneurship. This relationship is considered to be interdependent. Both directions are discussed. The paper also describes the perspectives of both academic disciplines involved in regional entrepreneurship research, namely (geographically sensitive) economics and management studies on the one hand, and economic geography on the other. Based on a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on regional entrepreneurship, several research gaps are identified that could be helpful for designing future research. Some have strong relevance for government policy, which has recently paid much more attention to entrepreneurship than in the past (e.g. related to the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach), but which rather rarely has been considered in academic evaluations so far. This paper ends with a suggestion for an agenda for future regional entrepreneurship research. Digital transformation with its potential for a disruptive transformation of economies and societies will provide an excellent and, of course, a currently not well-understood research field for regional entrepreneurship research.
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- 2021
18. 产业随人才走:异质性人才集聚影响区域产业格局的 微观机制.
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凌英凯, 王君慧, 古恒宇, and 沈体雁
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SPACE in economics ,INDUSTRIAL clusters ,BUSINESSPEOPLE ,ECONOMIC geography ,CORE & periphery (Economic theory) - Abstract
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- 2024
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19. Selected Socio-Economic Aspects of the Last Two Economic Crises in Slovenia Assessed through a Three-Stage Territorial Model.
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Kušar, Simon
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REGIONAL development ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,FINANCIAL crises ,COVID-19 pandemic ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic insight into the socio-economic aspects of the last two economic crises in Slovenia: the Economic crisis between 2009 and 2013, and the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. A three-stage territorial model was developed as a theoretical tool for this study. The data for the analyses came from various statistical sources and from the available literature. The socio-economic aspects of both economic crises were analysed in 11 categories and at three territorial levels: macro (national), meso (regional) and micro (locational). Both economic crises differ fundamentally in many aspects. Compared to the Economic crisis, the COVID-19 crisis was much shorter and less severe, and had relatively little impact on the socio-economic structure of Slovenia and its regions. Both economic crises had some common features: reduction of interregional disparities and different development paths of regions during the crisis, as well as strong economic growth in the first year of recovery. The proposed model can be extended by additional territorial levels and by adding additional social and political-geographical aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. The impact of pollution on the dynamics of industry location and residence choice.
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Commendatore, P., Kubin, I., Sodini, M., and Sushko, I.
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INDUSTRIAL location ,INDUSTRIAL pollution ,ECONOMIC geography ,BUSINESSPEOPLE ,DWELLINGS - Abstract
In this paper we analyze the role of pollution for industry location and residence choice. We present a new economic geography (NEG) model in which manufacturing generates local pollution (that does not accumulate) and uses two types of labour input: unskilled workers that cannot migrate and work where they live; and high-skilled entrepreneurs that choose where to produce and where to live. Taking on board costless commuting or, in alternative, distance working, entrepreneurs can live in a different location from production. Both types of households enjoy utility from consuming all commodities (locally and imported variants) and suffer from local pollution. The resulting model is of the footloose entrepreneur variant, but involves two dynamic equations: the standard one governing the residential choice of entrepreneurs, and another one governing where production is located. The current paper analyses the discrete time dynamic process defined by a two-dimensional piecewise smooth map. Depending on parameters this map can have possibly coexisting attractors of various types (fixed points, cycles, closed curves as well as chaotic attractors). We analytically obtain stability conditions for the fixed points. Using numerical methods we describe also some global dynamic properties of the considered map. Finally, we propose an economic interpretation of the results concerning local stability analysis and global dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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21. Industrial agglomeration, spatial-temporal evolution and its driving factors: spatial interaction in Chinese leather industry.
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Su, Fang, Song, Nini, Shang, Haiyang, and Fahad, Shah
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LEATHER industry ,INDUSTRIAL clusters ,ECONOMIES of agglomeration ,ECONOMIC geography ,ENVIRONMENTAL regulations ,INNOVATION management - Abstract
Taking the golden 20 years of the Chinese leather industry as an example, this paper adopts a spatial panel model to accurately portray the characteristics of spatial evolution and the trend of development of agglomeration of the leather industry. This paper further systematically identifies the key driving factors of leather industry agglomeration, taking into account the time effect, spatial effect, and spatio-temporal effect at the same time. The results show that China's leather industry shows a shift from coastal areas to diffusion to inland areas. In terms of influencing factors, resource endowment and economic externality are the key force leading the agglomeration of leather industry. In addition, according to the results of group regression, it is found that innovation capacity and environmental regulation have become the main driving forces affecting the development of leather industry. Therefore, the government should carry out global planning according to the spatial pattern and transfer path of leather industry agglomeration. Based on the deep-level driving mechanism of industrial pattern evolution, specific industrial measures should be formulate to realize the development and promotion of leather industry in the new era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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22. The increasing importance of teaching and learning geoeconomics in a meaningful context.
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VASILCOVSCHI, Nicoleta
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ONLINE education ,ECONOMIC geography ,COOPERATIVE education ,INCLUSIVE education ,LABOR supply - Abstract
Significant changes of national and global events require adequate responses not just from governments, but as well from the educational areas. The end of the Cold War in 1990, followed by the Economic Crisis of 2007-2008, and the Pandemic Crisis of 2020 were global challenges that increased the importance of geoeconomic field and the need to study Geoeconomics nowadays as an interdisciplinary subject, as a discipline that exercises crucial roles internationally, requiring learners to study it in a meaningful context. In the future, present learners of Geoeconomics will work for countries that will use their strategic positions to access resources and promote their economic interests. They will analyze different interconnections between geography and economics that are transforming the world and promoting a global demand for labour force flexibility. They will be workers that will migrate and study to find their place and role in this evolving geoconomic system. In the present dynamic geoeconomic context, the field of education remains the key to prepare future generations to use a critical thinking approach when deciding how to apply internationally geoeconomic knowledge and skills. This research paper presents different aspects of Geoeconomics as a discipline and shows several steps that can be followed in order to teach and learn an interdisciplinary subject in a meaningful context, using an inclusive education and a cooperative learning approach. In fact, this research paper contains several authentic activities that can be used in the process of teaching and learning Geoeconomics, online or offline, and, more broadly, evaluates the needs of students and the role of lecturers in the process of international education, showing as well different techniques that can be used to prevent plagiarism. This research paper also includes an analysis of the process of meaningful teaching, its features, and the challenges that students can have with studying interdisciplinary subjects within the Social Sciences area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
23. White paper neglects levelling up London: Local government, business leaders and Londoners themselves are left with the task of addressing inequalities in the capital.
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Quirk, Barry
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GOVERNMENT report writing ,LOCAL government ,EQUALITY ,POOR children ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
The article offers information that local government, business leaders and Londoners themselves, left with the task of addressing inequalities in the United Kingdom. It mentions that e levelling up white paper has changed the landscape of discussion about geographical inequalities across the United Kingdom.
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- 2022
24. 'My room is like my sanctuary': Exploring homelessness and home(un)making in the austere city.
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Paul, Joshua
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HOMELESSNESS ,HOMELESS shelters ,FEMINISM ,HOMELESS children ,HOMELESS persons ,AUSTERITY - Abstract
Since austerity policies in the UK began in 2010, homelessness has risen rapidly. Drawing from feminist geographical theories and methodologies, this paper examines experiences of homelessness under austerity in Haringey, London through photo‐elicitation research with one participant, Tessa. This paper argues that home(un)making—the constantly shifting balance of homemaking and unmaking—is central to everyday experiences of, and resistance to, austerity. The paper first demonstrates how Tessa resists austerity through practices of homemaking that enable her to cope with the difficulties of homelessness at a time of austerity. Next, it explores how Tessa's relationships with other actors in the homeless shelter—other residents and government officials—contributed to processes of home‐unmaking, exacerbating the hardships she experiences. By developing the concept of home(un)making, therefore, this paper aims to show the dynamism of home for homeless people under austerity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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25. Speculating on vacancy
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Noterman, E, Noterman, E [0000-0003-2702-0944], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Noterman, Elsa [0000-0003-2702-0944]
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REGULAR PAPERS ,Philadelphia ,property ,Property (philosophy) ,speculation ,Geography, Planning and Development ,critical cartography ,urban planning ,Race (biology) ,Urban planning ,Vacancy defect ,Critical cartography ,Economic geography ,Sociology ,REGULAR PAPER ,Speculation ,race ,Earth-Surface Processes - Abstract
Funder: National Science Foundation; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001, Funder: American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon Foundation; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000962, Funder: Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007015, Property speculation has long served a role in the settler colonial appropriation of land and the racialised uneven development of contemporary cities. This future‐oriented approach to property acquisition and management is underpinned by notions of vacancy that erase past and present forms of possession and associate racialised spaces with lack and risk. Efforts to define, represent, and manage the speculative value of “vacant” properties through predictive mapping work to colonise the future in ways that erase the present and past. In this paper, I reflect on the role of speculative cartographies of property in both reifying and undermining normative urban property regimes. Specifically, I examine the city of Philadelphia's use of cartographic tools to identify “likely” property vacancy and how they relate to ongoing racialised dispossession. I then turn to consider the potential of speculative (counter) cartographies of property to contribute to new political realities, not just prevailing geographies. To do so, I engage with the work of artists and activists who are using mapmaking grounded in Afrofuturism to reclaim and reimagine the space‐times of properties deemed by city officials and developers to be “empty” or “wasted.” I suggest that while speculative cartographies of property facilitate the consolidation of liberal property regimes, they also allow for their disruption by revealing their situatedness and contingency – and by facilitating alternative visions of urban futures.
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- 2022
26. Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit.
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Hall, Sarah and Heneghan, Martin
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CORPORATE governance ,FINANCIAL policy ,BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 ,FINANCIAL services industry ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
This paper examines the impacts of Brexit as an external shock to European financial centre relations. In particular, it studies the changing nature of Paris-London financial relations post Brexit. Early on in the Brexit process, Paris was not understood as the most likely European centre to benefit from Brexit given its tax regime and high office costs. However, our analysis shows that through policy and corporate network change, it has been one of the major beneficiaries. In making this argument, the paper develops a sympathetic critique of work on global cities that has tended to emphasise corporate networks without fully situating them within their political landscapes. We argue that bringing work in economic geography into closer dialogue with work in international political economy offers one fruitful way of addressing this oversight and, in turn, better understanding how inter-city relations respond to external shocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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27. Financialisation, central banks and 'new' state capitalism: The case of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
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Sokol, Martin
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STATE capitalism ,CENTRAL banking industry ,BANKING industry ,FINANCIALIZATION ,GEOGRAPHIC boundaries - Abstract
Monetary policies are not usually considered as part of the repertoire of 'state capitalism'. However, unconventional monetary operations performed by central banks in recent years make this exclusion increasingly problematic. This paper thus explores whether recent central bank interventions should be considered manifestations of 'new' state capitalism. Analysis focuses on the actions of three central banks from the advanced capitalist core in the West – the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. By mobilising the 'financial chains' perspective, this paper highlights the fact that, under financialisation, contemporary central banks have assumed a pivotal role in shaping Western capitalism and its uneven geographies. Through these recent unconventional interventions, central banks have in effect become 'creators' or 'generators' of (financial) capital. As such, their role in shaping uneven economic geographies across space (well beyond their official territorial boundaries) has expanded. Spatial ramifications of central banks' capital-generating operations could thus fit easily within the framework of 'uneven and combined state capitalism'. The possibility of considering the unconventional operations of central banks as state capitalist could also go hand in hand with a modified definition of state capitalism. Indeed, the rubric of state capitalism could potentially be enlarged to include configurations of capitalism where the state plays a particularly strong role not only as promoter, supervisor and owner of capital but also as a 'generator' of capital. This capital-generating role appears to be essential for the survival of contemporary capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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28. Has South Korea's policy of relocating public institutions been successful? A case study of 12 agglomeration areas under the Innovation City Policy.
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Kang, Song Hee, Lee, Jae Seung, and Kim, Saehoon
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YOUNG adults ,CITIES & towns ,PUBLIC institutions ,GOVERNMENT policy ,ECONOMIC geography ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,YOUNG workers ,PUBLIC spaces - Abstract
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- 2024
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29. Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards.
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Hastings, Thomas and Herod, Andrew
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GEOGRAPHY ,SPATIAL ability ,ECONOMIC geography ,NATION-state - Abstract
State labour inspection has been relatively underresearched in economic and labour geography, despite its prospective role in tackling worker exploitation as part of national state regulatory strategies. This paper seeks to address this gap by critically examining state labour inspection as a government function capable of upholding labour standards within and across economic space. A key contribution of the paper is to make stronger connections between workers' spatial strategies and their ability to shape how labour inspection and standards enforcement is carried out. Focusing upon the UK and Ireland, we examine different ways in which some labour-friendly groups have sought to contest but also to support state labour inspection efforts with a view to protecting workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. A global assemblage of tax haven clusters: profit shifting, tax dodging and money laundering.
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Cooke, Philip and Boix-Doménech, Rafael
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TAX havens ,TAX evasion ,INTERNATIONAL taxation ,ECONOMIC geography ,HUMAN behavior ,INDUSTRIAL clusters - Abstract
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31. Adapting to an Economic Crisis: The Market System vs Hierarchical Governance.
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Martinez, Octavio J.
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BUSINESS cycles ,INDUSTRIAL clusters ,FINANCIAL crises ,ECONOMIES of agglomeration ,ECONOMIC geography ,VERTICAL integration - Abstract
This research investigates how exchange governance and the local market system influence a firm's adaptability to an economic crisis. This paper unveils a nuanced performance disparity by leveraging a rich dataset of manufacturing firms in Spain. While vertically integrated firms exhibit superior performance during periods of stability, they confront more significant setbacks in the aftermath of economic crises. This study demonstrates that the extent of this performance divergence is contingent upon the thickness of the local market system, supporting the hypothesis that vertically integrated firms derive reduced adaptive benefits from agglomeration economies. These findings shed light on the dynamic interrelationship between a firm's vertical scope and geographical context. They underscore the significance of a holistic assessment when determining the optimal approach to exchange governance. This assessment must evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of autonomous versus coordinated adaptation across economic cycles and geographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. The spatiotemporal transmission dynamics of COVID-19 among multiple regions: a modeling study in Chinese provinces
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Fei Tian, Hualiang Lin, Jiali Li, Qiaojuan Jia, and Guanghu Zhu
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Spatiotemporal transmission ,Original Paper ,Human mobility ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Reproduction number ,Applied Mathematics ,Mechanical Engineering ,Aerospace Engineering ,Outbreak ,COVID-19 ,Ocean Engineering ,Disease control ,law.invention ,Prevention and control ,Geography ,Transmission (mechanics) ,Ordinary differential system ,Control and Systems Engineering ,law ,Economic geography ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,China ,Spatial diffusion ,Basic reproduction number - Abstract
Current explosive outbreak of COVID-19 around the world is a complex spatiotemporal process with hidden interactions between viruses and humans. This study aims at clarifying the transmission patterns and the driving mechanism that contributed to the COVID-19 prevalence across the provinces of China. Thus, a new dynamical transmission model is established by an ordinary differential system. The model takes into account the hidden circulation of COVID-19 virus among/within humans, which incorporates the spatial diffusion of infection by parameterizing human mobility. Theoretical analysis indicates that the basic reproduction number is a unique epidemic threshold, which can unite infectivity in each region by human mobility and can totally determine whether COVID-19 proceeds among multiple regions. By validating the model with real epidemic data in China, it is found that (1) if without any intervention, COVID-19 would overrun China within three months, resulting in more than 1.1 billion clinical infections and 0.2 billion subclinical infections; (2) high frequency of human mobility can trigger COVID-19 diffusion across each province in China, no matter where the initial infection locates; (3) travel restrictions and other non-pharmaceutical interventions must be implemented simultaneously for disease control; and (4) infection sites in central and east (rather than west and northeast) of China would easily stimulate quick diffusion of COVID-19 in the whole country. Supplementary Information The online version supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11071-021-07001-1.
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33. Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms: critical reflections from a global perspective: edited by Lisa B.W. Drummond and Douglas Young, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2020, 336 pp., $71.25 (cloth), ISBN: 9781442632837, $39.95 (paper), ISBN: 9781442632530, $31.95 (ePub), ISBN: 9781442632851, (PDF), ISBN: 9781442632844
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Smirnova, Vera
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CRITICAL thinking ,SOCIALISM ,CROWDS ,PUBLIC spaces ,ECONOMIC geography ,FORM perception - Abstract
Hence implications that the transition from socialism follows an "ongoing process that can stretch over a period of decades" don't do a justice to a nuanced account that this book offers (307). The book editors, Lisa B.W. Drummond and Douglas Young ask: "what is socialist about any given urban space" and what is it, about some urban spaces, that shape their perception as being socialist in one way or another (301)? ISBN: 9781442632530, $31.95 (ePub), ISBN: 9781442632851, (PDF), ISBN: 9781442632844. [Extracted from the article]
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34. Role of Geography in Structural Transformation: The Story of Indian States.
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SINGH, CHHAYA
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GROSS domestic product ,GEOGRAPHY ,ECONOMIC geography ,ECONOMIC activity ,ECONOMIC expansion - Abstract
Economic activity as a measure of development is generally estimated in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But the propriety of GDP as a measure of development has been subject to debate. Different theoretical as well as empirical evidences have hinted towards a relationship between geography and economic growth. This paper attempts to test the geographical proximity hypothesis (i.e., economic growth of a region is determined by its geography in general, and its proximity to other developing or under developed regions in particular) in context of India. This paper argues that the growth rate of a region is determined by the proximity to developed or under-developed states and such clusters of proximate states grow together as a whole. This inference has huge policy implications and makes a favourable case for inclusion of geography as a significant determinant of economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. Foreword to the thematic issue on cities in global capitalism.
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KUMER, Peter and DAVIDOVIČ, Danijel
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CITIES & towns ,SUSTAINABLE urban development ,CAPITALISM ,ECONOMIC geography ,URBAN geography - Abstract
Copyright of Journal for Geography / Revija za Geografijo is the property of University of Maribor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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36. Assessing the importance of proximity dimensions for the diffusion of radical innovations in German biotechnology.
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Shkolnykova, Mariia
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,DIFFUSION of innovations ,ECONOMIC geography ,SMALL business ,BIOTECHNOLOGY ,ORGANIZATIONAL performance - Abstract
This paper estimates the impact of the different proximity dimensions on the subsequent innovation performance of firms which received radical knowledge spillovers. The analysis for the case of biotechnology small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs) in Germany is based on a dataset covering the period from 1998 to 2017. Results indicate the positive impact of social and organizational proximity on the innovation performance of radical knowledge recipients. Geographical proximity has a negative impact, whereas for cognitive proximity a U-shaped relation is observed. The paper contributes to the innovation economics and economic geography literature by underlining the peculiarities of the effectiveness of radical knowledge spillovers. Additionally, the importance of policy support for SMEs across regions and technological fields is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. Theory of Commercial Gravitational Fields in Economics: The Case of Europe.
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Capoani, Luigi
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GRAVITATIONAL fields ,VECTOR analysis ,RESEARCH questions ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
This article is a theoretical development of the gravitational model through an econophysical approach and physical tools. Therefore, this paper attempts to answer the following research question: "Can physics still contribute to the development of the gravitational model in economics?". To tackle the question, this paper begins with an overview of the basic concepts of Newton's universal gravitational theory, which was first applied in economics by the distinguished American scientist Isard (1954). Then the concepts and formulas of gravitational fields in physics will be translated into economics, thus reviving Isard's original multilateralism through the elaboration of an extension of his model apt to describe the multilateralism and multi-country exchanges which characterize international trade. In this regard, the superposition principle of vector is used to offer vector analysis as a tool for mapping the interactions between the economic forces produced by the individual gravitational fields of different countries. A representation of the gravitational field of the European market will be provided. The field concept will extend the analysis from bilateral flows to the analysis of markets in two dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. Reshoring and firm productivity.
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Pennacchio, Luca
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This paper investigates the impact of reshoring, defined as the relocation of previously offshored production activities back to the home country or to a neighbouring country, on the productivity of manufacturing firms. It uses data from the European Reshoring Monitor on European firms in the period 2014–18. Reshoring increased total factor productivity of small and medium-sized firms, but did not affect productivity of large firms. The positive effect was stronger for firms that had offshored production to some Asian countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. A Middle Model of Economic Development? Revisiting the Economic Geography of Middle-Wage Occupations in the United States.
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Armstrong, Ben and Reynolds, Elisabeth B.
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ECONOMIC models ,ECONOMIC geography ,ECONOMIC development ,WAGE increases ,ECONOMIC policy - Abstract
High-wage regions have frequently been models for economic development policy. However, these places have also been more likely to experience a "hollowing out" of the middle of the labor market, whereby college-educated residents experience high-wage growth, while residents without a college degree do not. This paper studies regions where—in contrast to hollowing out—the share of middle-wage jobs has grown since 1980. Its aim is to understand how—if at all—the characteristics of these regions could suggest a model of economic development that prioritizes opportunities for noncollege graduates. The authors find that regions with a growing share of middle-wage jobs have been associated with higher levels of upward mobility and wage growth for workers without a college degree. These places, such as Wausau, Wisconsin, and Manhattan, Kansas, are associated with higher local school performance and have experienced comparatively high growth in production jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. The Impact and Spillover Effects of Chinese Ports on Urban Service Industry under De‐maritimization: A Perspective for Port Economic Geography Analysis.
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Li, Jiewei and Zhu, Ruihua
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Will ports become less important in a post‐industrial period dominated by service industries? This paper examines the impact and the spillover effects of ports on city economies. The results show that ports contribute to city economies primarily through producer and consumer services. To be specific, ports can drive the development of port‐related producer services, and port spillover effects from other cities have a broader impact on producer services; the port contributes to the development of wholesale and retail trades in the local city but the boost to consumer services comes mainly from spillover effects from other ports. This paper concludes that ports are still shaping economic geography by influencing the service sector, and inter‐city coordination mechanisms are suggested because of the spillover effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. Worker intra‐urban residential migration and spatial labour market change in Melbourne's functional economic regions.
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Li, Tiebei and Dodson, Jago
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LABOR market ,HUMAN migration patterns ,URBAN growth ,ECONOMIC geography ,INTERNAL migration ,ECONOMIC statistics ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,POPULATION geography - Abstract
This paper investigates the intra‐urban residential migration of workers in Melbourne and assesses the spatial effects of this dynamic on urban internal structure and spatial labour markets. Intra‐urban migration is an important category of internal migration that relocates human and social capital in urban areas, contributing to changes in urban residential and labour market structure. This paper fills the gap in internal migration literature by determining spatial residential movement dynamics through a spatial analysis of census‐based intra‐urban migration flow data. In addition to detailed migration flow analysis undertaken at a local scale, the paper contributes an improved economic data geography based on functional economic regions (FERs) that permits analysis of the intersection of worker migration flows with sub‐metropolitan labour markets. Our results show that intra‐urban migration results in a strong outward flow of workers in Melbourne, which primarily appears to be shaped by spatial housing markets. This process, in turn, contributes to the dispersion of labour markets in Melbourne, complicating policy aims concerning urban agglomeration and limiting urban spatial expansion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. (Infra)structural Discontinuity: Capital, Labour, and Technological Change.
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Cole, Matthew
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,INDUSTRY 4.0 ,ECONOMIC geography ,INSTITUTIONAL logic ,POSTTRAUMATIC growth ,ELECTRONIC commerce ,INSTITUTIONAL environment - Abstract
The so‐called age of AI, industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, etc. all attempt to conjure into existence a new technological paradigm. Should we believe the hype? This paper draws on neo‐Schumpeterian and régulation theory to widen the scope of this debate and examine techno‐economic and institutional discontinuities. In exploring these discontinuities, this paper argues, first, that growth regimes are not necessarily tenable as indicators of new paradigms, and, second, that there are (infra)structural discontinuities between the ICT/post‐Fordist era and those of the AI/platform era. Platformisation entails a distinct institutional logic, regime of accumulation (RA) and mode of social régulation (MSR). The clusters of technological and institutional changes behind this shift have not yet been sufficiently addressed by economic geography and associated literatures. In reconceptualising the shift in terms of (infra)structural discontinuity, the paper synthesises neo‐Schumpeterian and régulation theory to identify both technological and institutional changes in the régulation of capitalist accumulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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43. The belt and road initiative: a systematic literature review and future research agenda.
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Panibratov, Andrei, Kalinin, Alexey, Zhang, Yugui, Ermolaeva, Liubov, Korovkin, Vladimir, Nefedov, Konstantin, and Selivanovskikh, Louisa
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BELT & Road Initiative ,ECONOMIC research - Abstract
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has attracted substantial academic attention right after its establishment in 2013. It has produced an array of scientific works analyzing various aspects of this multi-component phenomenon. Our paper is an attempt to systematically classify and further scrutinize the BRI literature within the management and economics field in order to navigate further academic inquiry into the BRI phenomenon. We used the Scopus database and a guided delimitation approach to ensure the quality and relevance of the selected papers. Based on the identified themes we propose promising avenues for future research within the Economics and Management research domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Untraded inter‐dependencies as auxiliary production factors for informal artisans in urban industrial clusters: An empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana.
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Takyi, Godfred, Enu‐Kwesi, Francis, and Dinye, Romanus
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INDUSTRIAL clusters , *FACTORS of production , *COBB-Douglas production function , *EMPIRICAL research , *ECONOMIC geography , *INFORMATION sharing , *ENTERPRISE resource planning - Abstract
The concept and influence of untraded inter‐dependencies are under‐explored in the industrial cluster and informal economy literature. In this paper, we attempt to bridge this gap by extending the conventional Cobb‐Douglas production function to operationalising and testing the moderating effects of two forms of untraded inter‐dependencies in informal production. Based on the diffusion theory, we argue that knowledge‐sharing would favour informal production, as opposed to tool‐sharing. Using quantitative methods, 334 informal artisans were randomly sampled from three clusters in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana and analysed data obtained with moderating models and simple slopes plots. The tested models and fuzzy set configurations confirmed that knowledge‐sharing, but not tool‐sharing, has significant interaction effects on informal production. The optimal model derived would be one in which capital interacts with incremental knowledge‐sharing at the existing level of tool‐sharing among the artisans. This paper serves as an extension of new economic geography with an additional factor of untraded inter‐dependencies. As part of post‐COVID restoration and enhancement of informal production processes, we recommend city officials to deliberately plan and space clustered enterprises that enable the observed rates of interactions between production factors and untraded inter‐dependencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Territorial Impact Assessment, Cost Benefit Analysis and Do Not Significant Harms principle for sustainable works and plans design.
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Prezioso, Maria
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COST benefit analysis ,ENVIRONMENTAL economics ,EXTERNALITIES ,SUSTAINABLE design ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
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46. Where Are Business Incubators Built? County-Level Spatial Distribution and Rationales Based on the Big Data of Chinese Yangtze River Delta Region.
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Jiang, Tianhe and Zhou, Zixuan
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BUSINESS incubators ,BIG data ,PROBABILITY density function ,K-means clustering ,ECONOMIC geography - Abstract
Business incubators (BIs) in China have predominantly exhibited a government-led characteristic, recently broadening their spatial and temporal scope and extending reach to the county level. Regarding the inadequacies of county-level analysis scale, this study leverages Points of Interest (POI) big data to overcome them. To comprehend the governmental rationale in the construction of BIs, we examine the evolution dynamics of BIs in conjunction with policies. An economic geography framework is developed, conceptualizing BIs as quasi-public goods and productive services, and incorporating considerations of county-level fiscal operations and industrial structures. Focusing on the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region as a case study, our findings reveal that over 98% of County Administrative Units (CAUs) have built BIs. Using kernel density estimation and Moran's I, the spatial patterns of CAUs are identified. The CAUs are further classified into three categories of economic levels using the k-means algorithm, uncovering differentiated relationships between industry, finance, and their respective BI. Additionally, we analyze the density relationship between BIs and other facilities at a micro-level, showcasing various site selection rationales. The discussions highlight that while BIs tend to align with wealthier areas and advanced industries, affluent CAUs offer location advantages on BIs, whereas less wealthy CAUs prioritize quantity for political achievements. This paper concludes with recommendations about aligning BIs based on conditions and outlooks on future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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47. The inextricable nature of space and economy.
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Fratesi, Ugo, Elhorst, Paul, Abreu, Maria, Amaral, Pedro, Bond-Smith, Steven, Corrado, Luisa, Ditzen, Jan, Felsenstein, Daniel, Franklin, Rachel S., Fuerst, Franz, Monastiriotis, Vassilis, Piras, Gianfranco, Quatraro, Francesco, Ravazzolo, Francesco, Tranos, Emmanouil, Tsiotas, Dimitrios, and Yu, Jihai
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HETERODOX economics ,ECONOMIC geography ,SPACE in economics ,REGIONAL economics ,URBAN economics ,PUBLIC spaces ,ECONOMICS education - Abstract
Space has always been essential within the economy, yet its importance in economics has been downplayed in several ways. This editorial introduces the seven papers comprising this issue of Spatial Economic Analysis (SEA) and shows that while the classics of economics acknowledged the importance of the location of economic activities, for many years the study of space was left to heterodox economics scholars and geographers. This is despite the established tradition of learned societies, such as Regional Science International and the Regional Studies Association, which are placed at the intersection of these fields. Space finally became mainstream in economics again due, on the one hand, to the introduction of the new economic geography some 30 years ago and, on the other, to the fact that several different economic sub-disciplines have come to understand and consider space as essential for the processes they study. This was facilitated by methodological advancements, such as in spatial econometrics. The seven papers in this issue henceforth illustrate some of the situations and approaches which make space relevant to contemporary economic questions. Essential are, in particular, the interactions between different locations and the interactions between individuals and geographical features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. A Framework for Integrating Freight Transport, Urban Land Planning, and Infrastructure Management under Economic Geography Principles.
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Barrera-Jiménez, Humberto and Pineda-Jaramillo, Juan
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URBAN planning ,ECONOMIC geography ,LAND use planning ,FREIGHT & freightage ,FREIGHT traffic ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) - Abstract
This study presents a conceptual framework proposal for integrating urban freight initiatives (UFIs), or city logistics initiatives, into urban planning and urban management (UPUM) land use and infrastructure systems. As a novel approach, this framework integrates three components: Firstly, a conceptual basis on three economic geography theory principles—location, agglomeration, and urbanisation. Secondly, spatial analysis and subsequent clustering integrate companies' spatial positions, their proximity to other companies, their freight intensity, and the characteristics of the zonal road infrastructure; these clusters are defined as freight traffic zones (FTZs). Thirdly, a functional yet strategic UFI clustering or grouping is proposed to work in an optimised and integrated manner with the FTZs' opportunities for efficiency and reduced externalities. It is expected that the integrated result of these three components can serve to optimise freight initiatives and road infrastructure from a city governance perspective, reduce freight externalities, and function as a stakeholder cooperation tool from government-led, policy-driven perspectives. This research also identifies and characterises various variables influencing the emergence and existence (planned or organic) of FTZs and shows how these could be incorporated into high-level UPUM processes. Although it is deemed that the principles and methodological approach followed here could be common to urban areas, an example for the Metropolitan Area of the Aburra Valley (MAAV), in Colombia, is presented as an initial case study. Conclusively, this paper introduces a pioneering methodology for integrating UFIs into city or metropolitan governance, offering guidance for policymakers to promote sustainable freight systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation.
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Dinmore, Helen, Beer, Andrew, Irving, Jacob, and Sotarauta, Markku
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REGIONAL economics ,ECONOMIC geography ,ENTREPRENEURSHIP ,DECISION making ,REGIONAL development - Abstract
This paper addresses debates on the role of agency in shaping the economic future of regions. Scholarship on agency departs from the earlier focus of evolutionary economic geography, which highlighted the role of pre-existing structural conditions. This paper challenges the notion that agency is only found in intentional action and is limited to key actors within a region. It questions exclusive focus on the impact of entrepreneurial leaders, place leaders and government, and identifies agency in the accumulated micro-decisions of multiple decision-makers, using the example of workers affected by the closure of Australia's passenger vehicle industry. In so doing, it underscores the twin roles of collective vision and meaningful implementation in the successful transformation of regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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50. Levelling up: the need for an institutionally coordinated approach to regional and national productivity.
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McCann, Philip
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ECONOMIC geography ,ECONOMIC development ,DECISION making ,GROSS domestic product - Abstract
The paper argues that the UK's endemic regional–national productivity problems cannot be addressed by the UK's current institutional and governance set-up. This paper argues that the establishment of an appropriate institution, body or forum is essential in order to fill the current governance vacuum. The appropriate nature, form and logic of such a body can be gleaned by observing various international comparator bodies which undertake different aspects of the types of roles and tasks that a UK body must necessarily undertake. The options for a UK body comprising elements of these comparator institutions are discussed in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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