Regional Studies

Article	Citations
Studying human agency in regional development	128
The financialization of urban development and urban labour productivity: evidence from China	86
Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions	77
Regional innovation impact of universities	59
Place-based public investment in regional infrastructure, the locational choice of firms and regional performance: the case of India	55
Regional studies and frugal innovation: a missing link?	53
Does urban polycentricity contribute to regional economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of Chinese urban regions	52
Identifying Brazilian functional regions: a network approach, 1980–2010	49
Regional artificial intelligence and the geography of environmental technologies: does local AI knowledge help regional green-tech specialization?	48
Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?	46
Place leadership through local planning: integrating urban design and economic development	45
Making the Ontario craft beer market	45
Coping with extreme events: on solving decentralised budgetary crises	45
Learning from place-based flood prevention policies: a realist approach	44
Which regional conditions facilitate university spinouts retention and attraction?	43
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge	41
Tertiary education expansion and regional firm development	39
Computational social science in regional analysis and the European real estate market	38
Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?	37
Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China	37
The regional economic impacts of the railway gauge muddle in Australia	36
Emigration and employment impacts of a disastrous earthquake: country of birth matters	36
Internal migration dynamics of native and foreign workers: an impulse–response analysis of perturbation and resilience by means of a spatial vector autoregressive model	36
Spatial inequalities and wellbeing: A multidisciplinary approach	34
Effects of cluster policies on regional inventor networks: evidence from France	33

Exploring the spatialities of institutional entrepreneurship in Taipei’s FinTech industry	33
How much does state aid mitigate employment losses? Local policy effects at a time of economic crisis	32
Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK	32
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation	31
An economic topology of the Brexit vote	31
The quality of government and administrative performance: explaining Cohesion Policy compliance, absorption and achievements across EU regions	30
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?	30
Public procurement as a policy tool: the territorial dimension	29
The Covid-19 shock in European regions	29
Diversity in brokerage cities: the evolution of urban positionality in China’s financial system	27
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations	27
Decentralisation and the governance of extreme events	26
Environmental sustainability in polycentric urban regions: an urban resilience perspective	25
Agglomeration externalities, industry life cycle and firm survival: evidence from Chinese manufacturing start-ups	25
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies	25
Generalised morality and contemporary fertility dynamics across European regions	25
The COVID-19 shock on the labour market: poverty and inequality effects across Spanish regions	25
The impact of cluster policy on academic knowledge creation and regional innovation: geography of university–industry collaboration in Japan	25
Trade spillover effects of transport infrastructure investments: a structural gravity analysis for EU regions	25
Correction	24
Correction	24
Analysing the effect of betting shops on crime in England	24
Trade liberalization and firms’ productivity in Vietnam: the role of local business environment	24
Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions	23
Decentralizing the Chilean miracle: regional intergenerational mobility in a developing country	23
University graduates’ early career decisions and interregional mobility: self-employment versus salaried job	23
The triumph of the placeless	23
Ethnic minorities, income inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from English local councils	22
Learning from the past: a machine-learning approach for predicting the resilience of locked-in regions after a natural shock	22
Multi-source strategic interaction in China’s public services: a spatial econometric analysis	22
Where do capabilities reside? Analysis of related technological diversification in multi-locational firms	22
Global production networks meets evolutionary economic geography	21
Regions beyond Industry 4.0	21
Ageing places: convergence and the role of the foreign population	21
The spatial impact of entrepreneurial zones: firm, city and inter-city evidence	20
Image and reality: ‘digital twins’ in smart factory automotive process innovation – critical issues	20
Regional Studies 2021 Awards	20
The contribution of interregional and inter-field knowledge spillovers to regional Smart Specialisation	20
Do firms in rural regions lack access to credit? Local variation in small business loans and firm growth	20
Distillations of authenticity: a comparative global value chain analysis of pisco	19
Long-term persistence in entrepreneurship: the case of post-socialist Czechia (1930–2011)	19
The wealth of cities and the poverty of nations	19
Creating planning visions for fragmented post-socialist city-regions	19
Local knowledge spillovers and the effects of related and unrelated variety on the novelty of innovation	18
The diffusion of COVID-19 across Italian provinces: a spatial dynamic panel data approach with common factors	18
Empowerment via delegation? The administrative capacity-building potential of Cohesion Policy urban development strategies	18
Geography of knowledge collaboration and innovation in Schumpeterian firms	18
The infrastructured state: Territoriality and the national infrastructure system	17
Interconnected worlds: Global electronics and production networks in East Asia	17
Regions in Covid-19 recovery	17

Immigration and regional housing markets: prices, rents, price-to-rent ratios and disequilibrium	17
A trade hierarchy of cities based on transport cost thresholds	17
Green hydrogen regions: emergent spatial imaginaries and material politics of energy transition	17
The urban experience: An interdisciplinary policy perspective,	17
Population decline and changes in food store access	17
Globalisation must work for as many regions as possible	16
Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective	16
The local economic impact of the Swedish higher education system	16
Constructive and destructive agency, regional path development and critical junctures: the case of cruise tourism in Nuuk, Greenland	16
Regional Studies 2022 Awards	16
How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times	16
Oxford and Grenoble: multiple anchors, strong dyadic relationships and national policy in fostering cluster architectures	16
Redistribution and risk-sharing effects of intergovernmental transfers: an empirical analysis based on Italian municipal data	15
The Routledge handbook of regional design	15
Scotland and Islandness: explorations in community, economy and culture	15
Reconsidering regional structural conditions for industrial renewal	15
Economic growth and Cohesion Policy implementation in Italy and Spain: Institutions, strategic choices, administrative change	15
A capability-approach perspective on regional development	15
Epidemic–economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies	15
Regional house price convergence: implications of monetary policy	15
On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany	15
Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy	14
Mysteries of the trade? Skill-specific local agglomeration economies	14
The dark side of innovation in financial centres: legal designs and territorialities of law	14
Why territory matters for implementing active subsidiarity in EU regional policy	14
Transportation gateways and trade: how accessibility to the border shapes the spatial concentration of commerce	13
Developing non-core regions by establishing new universities	13
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia	13
Coworking spaces and regional development: a role for policy	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
Intra- and interregional flows of business angel investment: mapping the winners and losers across UK regions and core urban economies	13
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy	13
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: A global perspective	13
Medical institutions in the geography of innovation: evidence from public tertiary hospitals and biotech start-ups in Chinese cities	12
The case for place-based policy: economic divergence, governance integrity and climate change mitigation	12
Contents of volume 56	12
Brexit’s ripple effect: transformations in European interregional trade	12
Towards a problem-oriented regional industrial policy: possibilities for public intervention in framing, valuation and market formation	12
Place leadership in emerging industries: navigating the controversy and complexities of blockchain technology	12
External relations of an Industry 4.0 cluster: the case study of the Hamburg aviation cluster	12
Fiscal policy, public investment and structural change: a P-SVAR analysis on Italian regions	12
Global linkages and local institutions: the role of imports and MNEs in the regional diversification into complex products in China	12
Political decentralisation and the spatial distribution of infant mortality in less developed nations	12
A changepoint analysis of UK house price spillovers	12
Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence	11
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal: a developmental psychology perspective	11
Local agency and development trajectories in a rural region	11
The equity–efficiency trade-off and the intensity of COVID-19 pandemic government responses: evidence from US states	11
Agency and economic change in regions: identifying routes to new path development using qualitative comparative analysis	11
Productivity growth and regional reindustrialisation: UK evidence	11
Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city	11
Exporting unemployment? Assessing the impact of German import competition on regional manufacturing employment in France	11
Intermunicipal cooperation in public procurement	11
Student regional origins and student entrepreneurship	10
Agency and the structural determinants of regional growth: towards a retheorisation	10
Contents of volume 57	10
The four waves of regional policy: towards an era of trade-offs?	10
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15	10
Wage inequality, entrepreneurship and creative people in regional labour markets	10
The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain	10
Environmental regulation promotes green technological diversification: evidence from Chinese cities	10
The impact and externalities of natural disasters on local tax revenue in Colombia	10
Equity analysis of public service delivery among regions from temporal and spatial perspectives	10
The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK	10
Special economic zones and inter-prefecture collaborative innovation: evidence from China	10
Beer, brewing, and regional studies	10
Harnessing global value chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade	10
Transforming inter-organisational collaboration dynamics in regional networks through digitalisation	10
Determinants of regional economic resilience and post-crisis growth path performance: insights from Canada	10
Research versus development: global cities and the location of MNCs’ cross-border R&D investments	10
Decentralization and rural development policies effectiveness: a quasi-experimental evaluation of the LEADER programme	10
Housing submarket spillovers and COVID-19: the increasing influence of Australia’s regional cities	10
Regional Studies	10
The effect of CEO locality on the cost of debt financing: the role of regional heterogeneity	10
Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals	10
What Vietnam’s localized lockdown policy showed: it did not work and was too late	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
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	9

Regional Studies	9
Places as brands: charting the value of place-based intangibles	9
Indigenous people and regional resource rights: insights from three mining regimes in north-eastern India	9
The institutional challenges of dynamic regional innovation strategies	9
Protected areas and local economic development	9
Evolving regional economies: Resources, specialization, globalization	9
Income segregation in France: a geographical decomposition across and within urban areas	9
Historical roots of innovative entrepreneurial culture: the case of Italian regions	9
Backshoring and regional manufacturing employment dynamics	9
Europeanization mechanisms in context: metropolitan development through integrated territorial investments in Central and Eastern Europe	9
Governing regional affordability: rethinking the production of affordable spaces across the Metropolitan Region Amsterdam (MRA)	9
Network governance and coordination of a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem	9
Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas Cycling & walking for regional development: How slowness regenerates marginal areas	9
Child material deprivation: within region disparities by degree of urbanization	9
Engaging for the love of place? The role of place attachment in academics’ regional engagement efforts	9
Sustainable futures. An agenda for action	8
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems	8
Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions	8
Rethinking ‘left-behind’ places in a context of rising spatial inequalities and political discontent	8
Does geographical decentralisation harm the total factor productivity of firms in China?	8
Digitalization in sparsely populated areas: between place-based practices and the smart region agenda	8
Resilience and vulnerability of regional labour markets: principal component analysis of labour market efficiency in the EU	8
The local dimension of legitimation: an empirical analysis of firms’ entry in the Italian craft beer market	8
Understanding the interconnectedness of house prices between cities and regions during COVID-19: evidence from Australia	8
Strategic intelligence for the future of places: enabling inclusive economic growth through the Opportunity Areas Analysis Tool	8
Urban competitiveness in developing economies	8
Can urban agglomeration policy improve the innovation efficiency of cities in China?	8
What are university satellite campuses for? A perspective on their contribution to Italian municipalities and regions	8
Cross-border regional innovation systems: concepts, approaches and perspectives	8
Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces	8
Natural disasters and regional industrial production efficiency: evidence from pre-war Japan	8
Universal Basic Income as an instrument of regional development policy: a micro–macroeconomic analysis for Scotland	8
India from Latin America: Peripherisation, statebuilding, and demand-led growth	8
Volume index, 2021	8
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy	8
Renewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in Britain	8
Productivity slowdown across European regions: does non-standard work matter?	7
Correction	7
Setting local economic growth targets: does it mitigate nationwide policy uncertainty?	7
Does decentralisation theorem shape intermunicipal cooperation?	7
Regional opportunity spaces – observations from Nordic regions	7
Correction	7
Place-based sustainable urban mobility: a conceptual framework to spark local designs	7
Towards an integrated framework of agency in regional development: the case of old industrial regions	7
Regulation theory, space, and uneven development: Conversations and challenges	7
What draws investment to special economic zones? Lessons from developing countries	7
Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession	7
The long and winding road to find the impact of EU funds on regional growth: IV and spatial analyses	7
Industrial resilience, regional diversification and related variety during times of crisis in the US urban–rural context	7
Internal migration and economic mobility in Chile	7
Working remotely in the city? Regional embeddedness of online platform workers in Indonesia’s secondary cities	7
Is the creative class a shock absorber against an economic recession? Spatial labour market resilience in Romania	7
Re-imagining the future: city-region foresight and visioning in an era of fragmented governance	7
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies	7
Directionality and subsidiarity: sustainability challenges in regional development policy	7
Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China	7
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning	7
Smart cities and sustainable development	7
Diversity in brokerage: how do gateway cities interlink their hinterlands?	7
Split realities – dilemmas for rural/gastro tourism in territorial development	7
The horizontal and vertical coordination of policy mixes for industrial upgrading in China: an ambidexterity perspective	7
On the employment and health impact of the COVID-19 shock on Italian regions: a value chain approach	7
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
Public expenditure in India: Policies and development outcomes	6
Food system transformation for sustainable city-regions: exploring the potential of circular economies	6
Examining the effects of beer excise taxation on cross-border sales in border regions of the Baltic States	6
Location of Hungarian microbreweries: an exploratory analysis	6
City-level institutions and perceived entrepreneurial ecosystem’s growth orientation	6
Motorways, local economic activity and commuting	6
The prevalence of a bonding strategy in COVID-19 response networks: explaining intermunicipal partnering in the Santiago metropolitan region, Chile	6
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces: how to bridge vision and reality	6
Return to skills and labour market size	6
A regional perspective on the privatisation of Chinese state-owned firms	6
New region, new chances: does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?	6
Regional informal institutions, local governance and internal migration in Vietnam	6
The impact of mayors’ gender dissimilarity on budgetary stability in the EU: the case of Spanish municipalities	6
Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments	6
Persistence and change in regional entrepreneurship performance: a three-economy comparison	6
The spatial footprint of COVID-19 and local policy answers	6
Enhancing the inventive capacity of European regions through interregional collaboration	6
Americana without America: rhetorical geography as a source of competitive advantage	6
How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland's 1998 regional reform	6
The source of heterogeneous externalities: evidence from foreign multinationals in the UK	6
The regional geography of social mobility in Mexico	6
Rent as a regional asset: rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand	6
Regional intergenerational mobility in Ecuador: many lands in one country	6
Multinationals’ recruiting in industrial districts	6
Old habits die hard: pushing the frontiers of entrepreneurship persistence since 1926	6
‘The theatre was dark’: exploring regional Australian theatre’s resilient response to COVID-19	6
Community capitals and economic resilience: insights from the Great Lakes Region post-Great Recession	6
Examining the roles of universities in place-based industrial strategy: which characteristics drive knowledge creation in priority technologies?	6
Industry diversification in industrial districts: is it about embedded regional or firm-level capabilities?	6
The rural enterprise economy	6
Depoliticizing urban futures: visionary planning and the politics of city-regional growth	6