Regional Studies

Article	Citations
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	117
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	86
Making the Ontario craft beer market	76
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	75
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China	57
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions	54
Regional innovation impact of universities	51
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	50
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	50
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	48
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	48
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	48
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	45
Studying human agency in regional development	45
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	44
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions	43
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	42
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system	41
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?	41
Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry	37
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective	37
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development	36
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France	36
Dualism and payroll shares across US states	35
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	35

Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK	34
An economic topology of the Brexit vote	34
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	32
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension	32
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	32
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions	31
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	30
Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities	30
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups	30
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations	29
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan	29
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	28
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis	28
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	28
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies	27
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?	26
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation	26
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	26
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	25
Correction	25
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	25
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	25
Correction	25
The triumph of the placeless	24
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment	24
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation	24
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job	24
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England	24
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth	23
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils	23
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues	23
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock	23
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population	22
Regions beyond Industry 4.0	22
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions	21
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms	21
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography	21
Multi-source strategic interaction in China’s public services: a spatial econometric analysis	21
Regional Studies 2021 Awards	20
A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds	20
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country	20
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,	20
Population decline and changes in food store access	20
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia	20
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations	19
Immigration and regional housing markets: prices, rents, price-to-rent ratios and disequilibrium	19
The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system	18
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland	18
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)	18
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times	18

Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms	18
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors	17
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies	17
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition	17
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation	17
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system	17
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective	16
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law	16
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco	16
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence	16
Can the Internet narrow regional economic disparities?	16
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change	16
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	16
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions	16
Regional Studies 2022 Awards	16
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data	16
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible	16
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies	15
Oxford and Grenoble: multiple anchors, strong dyadic relationships and national policy in fostering cluster architectures	15
The Routledge handbook of regional design	15
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture	15
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy	15
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies	14
Mysteries of the trade? Skill-specific local agglomeration economies	14
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany	14
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal	14
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy	14
A capability-approach perspective on regional development	14
Strategic coupling in global production networks through international cooperation zones: the Thai–Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone	14
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy	14
Mimetic isomorphism, offshore outsourcing and backshoring decisions among micro and small enterprises	14
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy	14
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China	13
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy	13
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations	13
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology	13
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce	13
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation	13
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions	13
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities	13
Economic exposure to regional value chain disruptions: evidence from Wuhan’s lockdown in China	13
No county is an island: the rise of interjurisdictional cooperation among counties in China	13
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective	13
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia	12
Contents of volume 56	12
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities	12
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China	12
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities	12
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	12
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence	12
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement	12
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers	12
Industry 4.0 in industrial districts: regional innovation policy for the Toy Valley district in Spain	12
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme	12
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster	12
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city	12
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?	11
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence	11
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK	11
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France	11
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15	11
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective	11
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states	10
Contents of volume 57	10
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments	10
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region	10
Regional Studies	10
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives	10
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity	10
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis	10
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada	10
Beer, brewing, and regional studies	10
Wage inequality, entrepreneurship and creative people in regional labour markets	10
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization	10
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade	10
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain	10
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation	10
Regional Studies	10
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals	10
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia	10

Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities	10
Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship	10
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation	10
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies	9
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market	9
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia	9
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts	9
Protected areas and local economic development	9
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas	9
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles	9
Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions	9
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces	9
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action	9
The foundational economy and regional development	9
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics	9
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India	9
Municipal tax restrictions and economic efficiency: an analysis of Australian local councils	9
A blessing or curse: the spillover effects of city–county consolidation on local economies	9
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late	9
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives	9
Rethinking asset modification in regional industrial path development: toward a conceptual framework	9
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe	9
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas	9
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)	9
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization	8
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth	8
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?	8
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning	8
The non-linear effect of technological diversification on regional productivity: implications for growth and Smart Specialisation Strategies	8
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain	8
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions	8
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy	8
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?	8
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent	8
Correction	8
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions	8
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems	8
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU	8
Volume index, 2021	8
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?	8
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions	8
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?	8
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem	8
Brewing at the time of COVID: the impact of the pandemic crisis on UK craft breweries and its implications for the sector and local economies	8
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda	8
Directionality and subsidiarity: sustainability challenges in regional development policy	7
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses	7
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession	7
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China	7
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs	7
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach	7
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance	7
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies	7
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries	7
Strategic intelligence for the future of places: enabling inclusive economic growth through the Opportunity Areas Analysis Tool	7
Universal Basic Income as an instrument of regional development policy: a micro–macroeconomic analysis for Scotland	7
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?	7
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania	7
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities	7
Working remotely in the city? Regional embeddedness of online platform workers in Indonesia’s secondary cities	7
Correction	7
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context	7
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan	7
Urban competitiveness in developing economies	7
Smart cities and sustainable development	7
Diversity in brokerage: how do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands?	7
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile	7
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges	7
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments	6
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-19	6
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam	6
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts	6
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States	6
The association between hospital cooperation and the quality of healthcare	6
Geographical Indications and local development: the strength of territorial embeddedness	6
Exploring the mechanisms of platform empowered cluster development: evidence from the case of Taobao villages in rural China	6
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country	6
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK	6
Split realities – dilemmas for rural/gastro tourism in territorial development	6
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions	6
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective	6
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes	6
The rural enterprise economy	6
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment	6
Internet, transportation infrastructure and the spatial structure of urban employment in China	6
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand	6
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?	6
Persistence and change in regional entrepreneurship performance: a three-economy comparison	6
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies	6
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms	6
Decentralisation, unfunded mandates and the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 1926	6
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality	6
How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform	6
Extreme events, decentralisation and the effective number of parties	6