This paper presents an empirical study of spatial origin and destination effects of European regional FDI dyads. Recent regional studies primarily focus on locational determinants, but ignore bilateral origin- and intervening factors, as well as associated spatial dependence. This paper fills this gap by using observations on interregional FDI flows within a spatially augmented Poisson interaction

This paper uses panel data on over 200 regions of Europe during the years 2010–2015 to study the relationship between the quality of institutions and the capacity of local authorities and stakeholders to effectively protect and support cultural heritage, using new designations in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a proxy. Besides analyzing the spatial distribution of World Heritage sites across European

For decades, economists have examined the myriad variables that affect real estate value, from individual house characteristics to neighborhood amenities. Yet one variable, weather, has attracted little attention thus far. This is true despite widespread agreement that much of a home’s value rests on curb appeal, or how a home looks from the street, which could significantly change based on weather

Infrastructure investments have long been a key factor driving the economic and urban development of a country. These investments usually require a large amount of funds, but funding for such investments is often limited to catching up with the growing urban population, especially for cities in emerging economies. As a result, finding alternative funding for infrastructure investment is increasingly

We present a set of detailed evidence about the location patterns of service activities in the largest and most important Brazilian metropolitan region, the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR). Different from previous analysis of this big urban agglomeration, our results are obtained using a unique dataset of geocoded firms and a distance-based measure of firms’ location, thus not susceptible to the

Most empirical research on the effects of the economic downturns has been a-spatial and overlooked the location choices of creative industries (CIs). The present study addresses an open debate on whether economic downturns have pushed a change in the relative importance of resilience-based versus traditional CIs location factors. Considering the location choices of 6332 CIs Portuguese start-ups in

This article examines the link between economic globalization and spatial inequality in a panel of 142 countries over the period 1992–2012. Our instrumental variables estimates reveal a strong causal effect of the degree of economic integration with the rest of the world on spatial inequality, indicating that the advances in the process of globalization currently underway contribute to significantly

Over the years, manufacturing in advanced economies has been the object of intense reorganization driven crucially by the international strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs), and more recently, by technological disruptions powering a new manufacturing model, defined as Industry 4.0 (I4.0). This paper aims to explore firm-based, place-based and global drivers that can determine high levels

In a number of recent elections in Western Europe, support for far-right populist parties has been significantly higher in non-urban areas than in urban areas. This paper answers the following questions; (1) Can the urban–rural divide in voting behavior be explained by the fact that urban and non-urban populations differ in terms of education, income and other individual characteristics of voters,

Accurately estimating age profiles for destination-specific migration is requisite to understanding the determinants of population growth and projecting future change as migration is the primary growth determinant for most regions. In Australia, place-to-place flows based on the age profile of migration derived from census data are commonly used to empirically estimate destination-specific internal

Bringing firms together generates knowledge spillovers which in turn creates innovation and economic growth. However, firm interactions also generate market rivalry. Unlike knowledge spillovers, we know little over the geographic reach of market rivalry. The paper aims to provide a rigorous comparison of these two channels in a large scale. It approximates knowledge spillovers with the staple metric

The operation of video gambling terminals (VGTs) in Illinois has been increasing since they were legalized in 2009, then implemented in 2012. Past research has found that while gambling expenditures are positively correlated with income, they are also regressive in that, as a proportion of individual income, they are negatively correlated with income. Very little research has focused on the effects

We examine the role of political alignment and the electoral business cycle on municipality revenues in Greece for the period 2003–2010. The misallocation of resources for political gain represents a waste of resources with significant negative effects on local growth and effective decentralization. The focus of our analysis is municipality mayors since they mediate the relationship between central

Theories of inter-jurisdictional tax and yardstick competition assume that the tax decisions of one jurisdiction will influence the tax decisions of other jurisdictions. This paper empirically addresses the issue of horizontal dependence in local personal income tax rates across jurisdictions. Based on a large data set covering Swedish municipalities over a period of 14 years, we test for interactions

Entrepreneurial ecosystems research has largely focused on the profile of a handful of successful locations. This has prevented a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that shape entrepreneurial activity across the geographical space. Our goals in this research are (1) to identify the critical dimensions of entrepreneurial ecosystems, and (2) to assess whether successful ecosystems rely on heterogeneous

With the increasing number of cultural districts as place-based policies, one of the first questions that arise is: why do some states adopt cultural district laws but not others? Exploring the difference in timing of adoption by each state, I examine the determinants of cultural district laws. Following the policy diffusion literature, I test whether there is government, imitation, and learning mechanisms

Understanding the pricing and operation mechanism of community mental health (CMH) providers is important for designing effective health care policies as the CMH system has been playing an essential role in providing mental health services. This paper studies the delivery of community-based mental health care and interdependence among CMH providers by investigating the pricing patterns of CMH providers

This article used a CDM three-stage structural model based on data from the Spanish technological innovation panel to analyse the differential impact of technological innovation on labour productivity in the three largest Spanish regions and the Spanish economy as a whole. Although a considerable number of studies have used national data to analyse this relationship, very few studies have done so using

This study analyses the impact of growth (in absolute and relative terms) of the European regions on the attitudes towards the European Union (EU) of their citizens. It does so in a period of socioeconomic turbulence caused by the financial and sovereign debt crises, the accession to the Union of countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the spread of anti-European rhetoric. In a first stage, regional

Information criteria have been widely used in many quantitative applications as an effort to select the most appropriate model that describes well enough the unknown population behavior for a given dataset. Studies have shown that their performance depends on several elements and the selection of the best fitted model is not always the same for all criteria. For this purpose, this research evaluates

This paper introduces a new city-level panel dataset constructed using satellite nighttime light imagery and grid population data. The data contain over 1500 cities covering 43 Asian and Pacific countries/economies from 1992 to 2016. With the dataset, we perform a variety of analyses for the region as a whole as well as the five largest countries in the region. The exercise produces some novel evidence

Rural communities are intensively based on social capital, the potential of which might seem limited in terms of the possibility to expand beyond rural areas. Today, entrepreneurs, the main actors in achieving and sustaining rural development, have a unique opportunity in the exploitation of social capital in rural areas by utilizing the digital platforms. These new online entrepreneurs have become

Using a large dataset on the population of Spanish municipalities between 1877 and 2001, this paper analyses how their initial size and the presence of neighbouring urban locations influence subsequent population growth and how these links have evolved over time. Our results show that initial size is negatively related to population growth, except in the 1960s and 1970s when this relationship becomes

This paper contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship and economic geography by identifying factors that determine the attractiveness of a site in a metropolitan area, as the basis for the emergence of high-tech firms’ spatial concentration. The econometric model provides distinct advantages over the largely descriptive approaches that have been dominant in the point pattern analysis literature

By increasing housing prices, land use regulations can have positive impacts among homeowners, but they can also have negative impacts on the availability of affordable housing. We examined heterogeneity in the price impacts of land use regulation across the conditional house price distribution; this heterogeneity may ameliorate or exacerbate the impacts of land use regulation on affordable housing

Many large and industrial cities all around the world suffer from out-migration. It is usually connected with a loss of qualified labour force, suboptimal use of housing and city infrastructure, decrease in investments, etc., resulting in limited development potential. This article investigates the importance of urban environmental quality—especially pollution—for potential out-migration. In addition

Japan distributes lump-sum grants and subsidies to the vast majority of local regions. Each region makes a decision regarding expenditure and can choose between non-distortionary direct transfers to the region’s natives and subsidies to stimulate the local economy. Considering a two-region economy with interregional labor migration, we compare the welfare effects of direct transfers and economic stimulation

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on rural-to-urban migration in developing economies by shedding more light on the hitherto little-investigated linkage between the rural sector and the process of urban development. To this end, we combine existing spatial rural-to-urban migration frameworks and extend them by including some key assumptions of the urban development theory. Specifically

The aim of this study was to disentangle the role migration plays in several job satisfaction dimensions for academic researchers. We employ a novel database, MORE2, to track the migratory behaviour of European doctorate holders and use a multinomial treatment model to deal with selections bias. We find that more migratory individuals demonstrate higher levels of job satisfaction across several dimensions

Previous papers have approached direct and indirect self-citations at a firm-level considering that firms that internalize more self-knowledge are also those with a more accumulated stock of knowledge, which translates into greater absorptive capacity. When these firms internalize their own knowledge, they are appropriating the returns of their own previous investments in R&D. This paper applies an

The aim of this paper is to analyse self-employment survival, with special interest in the role of human capital and regions. Using Spanish administrative data and multilevel models, we followed two cohorts of new entrepreneurs for 2 years. According to our findings, the survival rate of new entrants into self-employment is approximately 53%, with this rate decreasing during the economic downturn by

This article aims to investigate the spatial effect of the quality of human capital and to identify if there is educational spillover from higher education in the proficiencies of elementary students. Although the role of geographical aspects has been studied in several academic areas, in the literature on the economics of education such studies are incipient and the few existing contributions use

Given the importance of entry promotion to prompt economic growth and promote structural transformation, this paper investigates the regional determinants of firm entry in the 30 Iranian regions, considering four different sizes—micro, small, medium, and large—over 2000–2015. Using a new and unique database, we estimate different spatial econometric models, which take into account three types of spatial

In this study, we investigate the lead–lag relationship between housing prices and sales volume across four US regional housing markets, namely Midwest, Northeast, South, and West. To achieve this, we employ a time-varying parameter vector autoregressive framework of analysis that focuses on dynamic connectedness. We not only investigate how either prices or volumes independently co-move across regions

The US H-1B visa for highly skilled immigrant labor and the accompanying H-4 visa for their dependents lead to structural constraints that exclude dependents from the labor force. This paper investigates the economic consequences of the US immigration policy that decouples work and admission permission for H-4 visa holders. Using a pool of likely H-1B recipients who were recruited through firms’ job

In 2015, a supposed bid-rigging cartel that operated in the Brazilian implantable cardiac devices market was announced and public authorities began to investigate it. This paper evaluates if there is systematic correlation between the bids that are placed by competitors in the sealed phase of procurement auctions, which is a situation that may suggest coordinated and fraudulent behaviour. By applying

Mixed geographically weighted regression (MGWR) models are a useful tool to model a regression relationship where the impact of some explanatory variables on the response variable is global and that of the others is spatially varying. The existing estimation methods for MGWR models assume that the model errors are homoscedastic. However, heteroscedasticity is very common in geo-referenced data and

The impact of broadband access and use continues to transform the socioeconomic landscape placing this twenty-first century infrastructure at the center of current policymaking discourse. Past studies have found a relationship between infrastructure investments and economic productivity. Recent broadband-related studies, however, have focused on general availability or adoption, and do not distinguish

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This paper introduces costly product differentiation into a mixed duopoly with strategic location choice in the first stage and price competition in the second stage. Initially, both firms locate at the center with no product differentiation. We demonstrate that the location choices critically depend on the effectiveness of investments in creating product differentiation, and the nationality of the

Using a multilevel model to account for individual and state levels of analysis, we examined whether native-born workers and settled immigrants differed in their migratory responses to recent immigration. We investigated the disparate impact of recent immigration across varying macroeconomic situations: before the recession (2006), during the recession (2009), and after the recession (2012). Our empirical

While prior econometric forecasting models focus on either macroeconomic or territorial aspects as drivers of regional growth, the fourth version of the MAcroeconomic, Sectoral, Social, Territorial (MASST4) model merges these two conceptual approaches to regional growth. Mechanisms of territorial complexity governing regional development theories, like agglomeration economies, or structural changes

R&D collaboration networks enable rapid access to global sources of knowledge, especially in strongly knowledge-based and technology-driven industries. However, technological idiosyncrasies require a refined picture, in particular, when explaining the interplay between geographical and relational effects driving the constitution and dynamics of R&D collaboration networks. We employ a spatial interaction

This paper explores the efficacy of a development model designed to enhance social capital where social capital is seen as a catalyst to increased economic opportunities. The study covers smallholder livestock producers in Malawi and the Philippines. The key question examined in this paper is whether communities that received this specific development intervention significantly increased their access

Entrepreneurship makes important contributions to both regional and national economies; however, entrepreneurship rates vary significantly across and within regions. We apply the communication accommodation theory lens to examine the role that bilingualism plays in regional entrepreneurship. We use aggregated firm and district level longitudinal data on eight northeastern districts in the region of

We analyze the impact of wage taxation on the workplace choices of and the commuting costs borne by individuals in an aggregate economy consisting of an urban and an adjacent rural region. This economy is inhabited by a continuum of individuals who are uniformly distributed with a total mass of one. These individuals choose whether to work in the urban or in the rural region. The wage is higher (lower)

We studied the parametric description of the city size distribution (CSD) of 70 different countries (developed and developing) using seven models, as follows: the lognormal (LN), the loglogistic (LL), the double Pareto lognormal (dPLN), the two-lognormal (2LN), the two-loglogistic (2LL), the three-lognormal (3LN) and the three-loglogistic (3LL). Our results show that 3LN and 3LL are the best densities

Small firms are often viewed as the remedy of regional development and growth, but there is little empirical evidence if the cluster of innovative small firms thrives regional innovation performance. This paper attempts to answer a timely policy question of “How vital is small-firm dominated ecology for regional innovation?” by investigating the mix of firm size within a region. The results find that

This research aims to identify factors that contribute to gas well operator pad site location decisions in Denton, Texas. Using new production technologies, a wave of shale gas extraction between 2000 and 2014 resulted in the development of 854 gas wells on 539 pad sites within 2000 US Census block groups that include parts of the City of Denton. For pad site placement, we consider multiple location

Although the American West has long experienced strong economic growth, variation in natural amenities and mineral resources across the West has produced a diversity of economic outcomes and trends. In this paper, we assess whether there have been recent significant shifts in economic growth across the nonmetropolitan counties of the region. We find significant relative downward growth shifts in areas

Key sector analyses have a long and rich history. However, almost all the previous analyses were conducted only within an input–output (IO) framework for a national economy. The present study (1) performs the analysis for a subnational (or regional) economy suffering severe leakages of industries’ revenues due to a large amount of imports and a large fraction of factor income earned by non-residents

In this paper, we analyze the impact of immigration on Greek politics over the 2004–2012 period, exploiting panel data on 51 Greek regional units. We account for the potential endogenous clustering of migrants into more “tolerant” regions by using a shift-share-imputed instrument, based on their allocation in 1991. Overall, our results are consistent with the idea that immigration is positively associated

We analyse the geographic localization and the productivity of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Italy, using both census data and balance sheet data at the firm level. We find that KIBS are generally agglomerated in urban areas where they attain significantly higher labour productivity levels. Urban productivity advantages are found to be strongly associated with the local availability

Despite the efficiency produced by long-distance commuting (LDC) as an adjustment mechanism between local labor markets, the impact that it has on the equilibrium of labor markets has not been studied in depth. This paper uses the case of Chile, since in the last two decades the LDC has increased its importance as a strategy of labor mobility for workers in this country. We demonstrate, both theoretically

Long-term population estimates are usually based on decennial (or roughly decennial), census-type data, especially those that go beyond the aggregate or national level. The lack of annual population datasets, however, restricts the range of analysis and therefore our knowledge of populations’ behaviour over time. This paper contributes to this scant literature by providing two new long-term, annually

In this manuscript, we relate regional structural composition—related and unrelated variety—to firm-level productivity in European regions, applying a Cobb–Douglas production function framework and using firm-, industry- and regional-level mixed hierarchical (multilevel) models. Our analyses indicate that regional-related variety has a positive impact on firm productivity in European regions, especially

In this paper, the effect of local bank branch closures on new firm formation in Sweden is analysed using a panel database that captures the geographical locations of all Swedish bank branches in 2007 and 2013. The previous research has shown that the further a firm is located away from the bank, the higher the monitoring costs will be for the banks. Furthermore, an increase in the distance to the

This paper provides an original analysis on residential mobility and locational choices of immigrants in France by using a unique database containing individual characteristics for 19 million French inhabitants in 2014. Residential mobility is studied at the level of the 304 metropolitan zones d’emploi, which is a very narrow spatial level of analysis taking into account worker’s commutes, local productive

The present study develops a spatial unconditional quantile regression by extending Firpo et al.’s (Econometrica 77:953–973, 2009) unconditional quantile regression and empirically investigates the determinants of parking prices at different quantiles of prices in Japan. The empirical results suggest that spatial competition in terms of unit price and the unit time play important roles in determining