<title>Abstract</title> This special issue of <italic>Spatial Economic Analysis</italic>, on ‘Modelling Regional Dynamics’, contains an interesting set of novel contributions put together by guest co-editors Peter Mulder, Peter Nijkamp & Roger Stough, who have also summarized and commented on the papers below. The papers...

Abstract Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has become an established benchmark tool in efficiency strategies in both the public and the private sectors. The aim of this paper is to present and apply a newly developed, emerging from a blend of a Distance Friction Minimization (DFM) and a Goals...