The Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2022 offers a timely opportunity to discuss and debate important issues, and to rethink the key theories, concepts and methods used in the field of regional studies in the face of changing regional challenges, and to provide new evidence for the...

The conference organisers are keen to attract papers and sessions which rethink cities and regions by identifying new fields of enquiry, which address a broad research and policy agenda, and include contributions from any discipline which can offer relevant insights at local and regional levels....

This conference will give PhD students and early career researchers (within 5 years after finishing a PhD) the opportunity to network, collaborate and socialise with others working in regional and urban studies, planning, geography, politics, development studies, economics and related fields....

Broad themes and key shifts the organisers are keen to facilitate discussion around include, but are not limited to: - Post-2020 EU Budget, the future of EU Policies and their likely implications for cities and regions, - Energy transitions, environmental sustainability, and designing urban and...

This conference will discuss the emergence of new forms of industrial development and policies targeted on the competitiveness of regions and cities. The aim of the conference is to share knowledge and experiences in industrial and territorial development. Developed, emerging, and developing...

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in labour economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region.

The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting and computer-based exercises. The following topics are likely to be covered: - techniques for modelling unobserved economic components, state-space...

The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: - models of financial services regulation including the ‘twin peaks’ model adopted in the United Kingdom; - a judgement-based, forward-looking approach to prudential supervision; - the interplay between...

Conference themes: - Regional and urban development theory revisited - City and regiona governance for a post-crisis age - Growing apart? The increase in social and spatial inequality - Evidence-based urban and regional policies - Smart cities, smart regions? - Financing city and regional...

The topics covered are likely to include: - an overview of aspects of the data justifying an analysis of financial frictions; - different ways of deviating from the frictionless benchmark: - costly state verification - collateral constraints - costly enforcement; - models of financial...