All contributions with a focus on regional/spatial phenomena and an economic, environmental, geographical and social science background are welcome.

The Symposium will serve the purpuse of discussing how sustainability may be incorporated in business education, in the research programmes of business schools, and in business practice as a whole. It is part of the "Accelerating the Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals...

TOPICS : Resource Utilization ; Impact Analysis ; Regional Modeling ; Location of Economic Activity ; Housing ; Regional & Urban Planning ; Environmental Quality ; Regional Development ; Migration and Demographic Analysis ; Transportation ; Locational Criteria for Public Services & Facilities ;...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic scientists, researchers and research scholars who are interested in or are working on spatial econometric and statistical issues. The program will consist of invited and contributed papers that cover theoretical, methodological and empirical...

Die Konferenz steht unter dem Motto: „Wenn möglich, bitte wenden!“ Räumliche Planungen und Ent­wick­lungen tragen lokal und global trotz gegenteiliger Leitbilder zu ge­sell­schaft­li­chen Pro­zes­sen bei, die die Tragfähigkeit des Planeten überschreiten sowie Be­las­tungen und...

A workhorse two-country portfolio model that embeds net foreign asset (NFA) imbalances rationalizes the following observation: debtor countries have on average a less diversified international portfolio than creditor countries. Abstracting from NFA imbalances, the model would feature a...

The ASRDLF Doctoral Studies are aimed at doctoral students and researchers working on territorial and regional issues in the human and social sciences (planning, economics, urban planning, geography, management, history, law, political science, sociology, etc). They take place in the form of...

Economists typically make simplifying assumptions to make the solution and estimation of their highly complex models feasible. These simplifications include approximating the true nonlinear dynamics of the model, disregarding aggregate uncertainty or assuming that all agents are identical. While...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

Doctoral supervision is becoming an important challenge for many institutions delivering management education at the doctoral level. The emergence of a global market for recruiting of Faculty members makes the quality of doctoral education and doctoral supervision in Management and Business...