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This paper introduces a new methodology to identify space-time patterns of regional resilience using a micro-level approach. The novel empirical tool combines geographically weighted regression with panel stochastic frontier analysis with endogenous covariates. The analysis is implemented on a panel of farm holdings operating in the Italian wine industry, focusing on the impact of a major institutional change. The results show the effectiveness of the new procedure in identifying geographical clusters of wine producers who reacted to the shock in similar ways. The responses are found to be homogeneous within specific territories and heterogeneous between regions.

Theory suggests that the spatial distribution of development within a local jurisdiction affects the costs of providing local public services. We use GINI coefficients to characterize these distributions at the county level and estimate the effects on real per capita expenditures from reductions in the spatial concentration of all buildings and nine alternative types of development. We also estimate the effect on expenditures from expansions in the developed area of a county. The results obtained from a panel of Florida counties confirm our theory and suggest that the geography of development within a county affects public services costs.

The economic impact of the Regional Policy of the European Union is still controversial. This paper exploits administrative boundaries as spatial discontinuity to estimate the causal effect of this policy on the Italian Objective 1 regions’ employment. The analysis, developed both in a border strategy framework (municipalities contiguous to the policy-change boundary) and with more traditional RDD models balanced by spatial forcing variables (centroids’ distance and coordinates), shows that the EU Regional Policy produced a positive impact on employment levels, without any displacement of economic activities away from nontreated regions and a concentration of the impact in key economic sectors.

This article was published in Journal of Regional Science [ © 2015 Blackwell Publishing Inc.] and the definite version is available at: https://goo.gl/VBtA8W

Review of: Global Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Incentives, by Zoltan J. Acs. 2016. Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar

Despite extensive public infrastructure spending, little is known about the benefits of access to “green amenities” like parks within cities. This paper uses spatial econometric methods to estimate the value of proximity to parks using land markets in a Chinese megacity. Our research design captures mechanisms of spatial interaction effects and highlights the importance of avoiding the biases inherent in the traditional valuation approach. Our results suggest that land adjacent to parks is significantly valued by land developers and that these valuations are not distributed evenly over space. Our evidence provides support for considering locations in explaining the amenity value differentials that are grounded in the social, economic, and local contextual forces at stake.

On the premise that knowledge creation defines contemporary metropolitan regions, we profile them by their inventive networks, as measured by a variety of complementary social network, technology, and patenting metrics that distinguish scalar and structural aspects. Using a comprehensive, multiyear database of patent applications, we investigate whether the knowledge creation network profiles are discriminating characteristics of metropolitan regions by establishing a new urban taxonomy for metropolitan areas in the United States. The four-class taxonomy is not only statistically significant, but it is also economically meaningful in terms of economic performance of metropolitan areas. We find that metropolitan areas benefit from a higher density of inventors in the population, and that there is a positive correlation between economic performance and metropolitan areas with inventor teams working in similar or complementary areas of technology. In fact, the structure of knowledge creation networks are fundamental to economic performance and extends to metropolitan growth rates in jobs and income.

How does the research about rural economies in developed countries compare to urban/regional economics? What can the new generation contribute? This paper briefly reviews modern research concerning rural development in one country, the U.S., and reports indicators of U.S. rural distress. It examines the market forces and market failures that cause rural distress and that may limit the applicability of existing urban/regional theories to rural problems. A feast of uniquely rural issues that require—and should inspire—theoretical innovations in rural, urban, regional, and spatial economics are identified and discussed.

Bespreking van: B. Fingleton,New directions in Economic Geography Cheltenham:Edward Elgar ,2007 978 1 84542 373 5

This paper proposes an approach to delineating metropolitan areas that is more general than the standard approaches in three respects: First, it uses the fraction of land prices attributable to economies of urban agglomeration instead of using com- muting intensities as an indicator of economic integration between metropolitan centers and their hinterlands. Second, it identifies metropolitan centers endogenously instead of determining them exogenously. And third, it takes metropolitan subcenters explicitly into account. An empirical illustration is used to show that the approach tends to de- lineate fewer but larger metropolitan areas in densely populated regions, and smaller metropolitan areas in sparsely populated regions. 1. MOTIVATION Metropolitan areas play an important role as subjects of regional eco- nomic policy, urban planning, and economic analysis in various countries. The metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) in the U.S. or the functional urban regions (FUR) in Western Europe are prominent examples. Metropolitan areas are usu- ally defined as sets of consecutive local administrative areas that comprise at least one larger core city and the adjacent administrative areas that have a high degree of social and economic integration with that core city (e.g., USCB, 2006). In virtually all delineations of metropolitan areas, the commuting inten- sity between a local administrative area and a core city is used as the indicator for the degree of economic integration. The U.S. MSAs, for example, comprise at least one core city with a population of 50,000 or more as well as any adjacent counties from where at least 25 percent of the employed residents commute to the core city's county (OMB, 2000). Similarly, the Western European FURs com- prise at least one core "urbanized area" with 20,000 or more jobs as well as any adjacent NUTS3 regions from where more workers commute to that core than to any other core (Cheshire and Hay, 1989). See Karlsson and Olsson (2006) for a recent survey of the various commuting-based delineation concepts.

Review of Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1, edited by Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson. 2005. Published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network. New York: Routledge. 355 � xv. 0-415-34693-2, $130.

We use the Getis/Ord local G statistic and detailed county-level industry employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to isolate discrete industrial complexes-or groups of nominally linked industries clustered in particular locations-for two recent years: 1989 and 1997. We describe the characteristics of the complexes in terms of their number, spatial extent, broad regional distribution, and other factors. Data from the two periods help illustrate key shifts in industrial locations, including the continuing concentration of the apparel industry in the Southeast and the ongoing southern shift in U.S. vehicle production.

The OECD Territorial Outlook is the result of the work of the OECD’s newest directorate, the Territorial Development Service (TDS). The TDS is responsible for policies with a spatial dimension, in the areas of regional, urban, rural, or local development.