The ifo Institute, Dresden Branch, announces the 14th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics. The workshop aims at facilitating the networking of young scientists and at promoting the exchange of their latest research. Relevant topics include regional structural change, development...

Topic: • Distributional consequences of agglomeration benefits • Labor market outcomes and housing affordability • Highly-local income inequality • Spatial extent of local labor markets and commuting patterns • Neighborhood effects and segregation • Interactions between local housing...

This talk argues that there is a gap separating planning practice and the technical and legal requirements that smart city technologies entail. A pertinent case is Quayside, Toronto, where Sidewalk Labs (part of Alphabet and a sister company of Google) and Waterfront Toronto (a three-level...

Die nächste Jahrestagung der DGD findet vom 15.3.2023 um 13 Uhr bis zum 17.3.2023 um 13 Uhr an der Universität Koblenz zum Themenbereich Demographie, Region und Nachhaltigkeit statt. Die Tagung wird hybrid durchgeführt, Tagungssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Die Konferenz steht unter dem Motto: „Wenn möglich, bitte wenden!“ Räumliche Planungen und Ent­wick­lungen tragen lokal und global trotz gegenteiliger Leitbilder zu ge­sell­schaft­li­chen Pro­zes­sen bei, die die Tragfähigkeit des Planeten überschreiten sowie Be­las­tungen und...

Regional development is often treated as being based on a clear and consensual perspective on the kind of progress needed. But academic as well as political debates are far less univocal. Regional studies in the past three decades have articulated a range of new and old social, spatial, economic...

The workshop aims at facilitating the networking of young scientists and at promoting the exchange of their latest research. Relevant topics include regional structural change, political economy, economic history, and public economics. Preference is given to empirical papers estimating causal...

The Theme ” Regional transformation: labor, skills, and resilience” The demographic transition, digitalization, macroeconomic volatility, and not at least the Covid-19 pandemic shape regional economies and labor markets by generating positive and negative shocks as well as requiring...

Our goals are to: - define the main challenges in safeguarding open spaces and reducing land take, - exchange “good practices” and innovative approaches that contribute to a sustainable planning and space efficient development of built-up land and infrastructure and - define thematic...