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Development, growth and decline in Europe: New patterns of economic convergence and divergence?
Cornett, Andreas P.; Soerensen, Nils Karl - European Regional Science Association - 2013
limits on public spending in general and on regional development in particular, both with regard to programs specifically … targeted on regional issue, but often also indirect due to changes in the geographical distribution of public spending (i … structural and R&D policy the aim of the current paper is to assess, to what extent they have supported regional convergence, not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740379
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Intra-regional Disparity and Municipal Merger: Case Study in Fukuoka Prefecture
Sakamoto, Hiroshi - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This study examines intra-regional disparity and municipal merger in Fukuoka Prefecture. Fukuoka Prefecture (Fukuoka … regional integration is also related. In this study, the municipal merger is considered from a viewpoint of the regional … evidence. It can decompose samples and investigate the factor analysis of regional disparities. In this case, it can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740511
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Greater Paris: A Plan for a Global City
Bourdeau-Lepage, Lise - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Over the last decade or so, the debate on the planning and development of the Paris (Île-de-France) region has revolved around two little words: "Grand Paris", or Greater Paris. Despite existing political and scientific controversies surrounding the future of the capital region, three major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145548
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Local Multipliers, Unemployment and Migration: An Empirical Analysis of the United States
Dijk, Jasper Van - European Regional Science Association - 2014
I show that the nontradable sector of a regional economy benefits from attracting jobs in the tradable sector. I find … find a significant multiplier in the nontradable sector for current inhabitants. These findings are important for regional … induce the most extra jobs in the nontradable sector. Insights in the effects of the tradable sector on the regional economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075862
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Municipal sizes and municipal restructuring in Japan
Nakagawa, Kuninori - European Regional Science Association - 2014
In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075934
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Interregional Inequality and Federal Expenditures and Transfers in Russia
Torbenko, Alexander - European Regional Science Association - 2014
gross regional product (GRP) per capita and wages in Russia over 2005?2011. Such an influence is not found. The federal … result confirms the prediction of neoclassical theory of regional growth and challenges a new economic geography prediction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075963
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Determinants of Local Multipliers
Dijk, Jasper Van - European Regional Science Association - 2014
A key aspect of understanding how regions grow is the interplay between jobs in the tradable and jobs in the non-tradable sector. Jobs in the tradable sector supply the world market and can therefore move from region to region, but every region has a local demand for non-tradable goods and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076016
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PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE: A LAND-USE AND TRANSPORT INTERACTION MODEL FOR SWITZERLAND
Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Zeiler, Alexandra; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076067
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AGE AND COHORT EFFECTS ON REGIONAL MIGRATION IN TURKEY
VAR, ELIF BERNA; DOKMECI, VEDIA - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This article investigates current age cohort effects on regional migration in Turkey and compares the results of this … division of regional migration among the age groups represents a similar pattern with different degrees except some points. The … shift, migration, regional, age, immigrant, Turkey. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740358
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Underwater collection of methane on east arctic shelf low-expensive technology of gas extraction
Minina, Marina - European Regional Science Association - 2013
In connection with the global warming of climate in the Arctic zone (both on dry land and in the sea shelf) began the processes of decomposition of the permafrost, accompanied by isolation into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and methane.The enormous deposits of methane hydrates on the bottom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740406