In this paper, we argue and provide empirical evidence to support the claim that higher income differences across regions increase the salience of interregional redistribution and, as a result, crowd out policies aiming towards improvements in government quality or efficiency. In the presence of...

In this editorial we summarise and comment on papers published in issue 9.1. The first paper is by Raffaele Paci, Emanuela Marrocu and Stefano Usai 'The Complementary Effects of Proximity Dimensions on Knowledge Spillovers'. Second, we have the paper by Karyn Morrissey, Cathal O'Donoghue and...

This article investigates how uncertainty in urban rents affects an efficient growth boundary designed by a regulator who prices a congestible public good at the average cost. A landowner decides the timing of development and competes with the regulator in a dynamic Stackelberg game. The...

The ocean is an important natural resource and offers considerable income and employment opportunity to the Irish economy. The last two decades have seen a realisation that whilst nationally economies may benefit from trade liberalisation, specific regions may not. This has led to the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of various proximity dimensions on the innovative capacity of 276 regions in Europe within a knowledge production function model, where R&D and human capital are included as the main internal inputs. We combine the standard geographical...

The article analyses the evolution of the employment created by cooperative societies and its relationship with total employment in Spain during 1994-2007. We focus, first, on the comparison of the convergence processes of cooperative and total employments and second, on their relationship, in...

In this editorial, we summarise and comment on the five articles published in issue 9.2. The five articles are a selection of papers presented at the 'Workshop on Inequality and Regional Growth and Cohesion' organised by the Regional Quantitative Analysis research group (AQR-IREA) of the...