The concept of resilience, which was first introduced during the 1970s in the field of ecology, has since been used and analysed in many different disciplinary fields. Even though the resilience concept is not a new one, it still attracts attention in various scholarly domains and disciplines,...

The use of Composite Indicators (CIs) experienced significant momentum in recent years within academia, policy makers, practitioners, and global institutions. Despite the burst of popularity, an ongoing criticism has been developed around their computation with respect to both weighting and...

Among the vast number of regional growth forecasting models, the past 15 years witnessed the emergence of the MAcroeconomic, Sectoral, Social, Territorial (MASST) model. The MASST model aims at merging macroeconomic elements with territorial features for forecasting regional growth trajectories....

In this chapter, we propose a novel methodology that aims at establishing what is the role of "location" in shaping firm growth. Along with the traditional determinants (like, e.g., age, size, financial constraints and others), geographical location is alleged to drive firm growth. The current...

This chapter provides a discussion on the concept of spatial inequality from a multidimensional perspective. The idea put forth is to emphasize the interconnection between an unfair outcome distribution and its individual variation at the local level. The additional information on the spatial...

This chapter focuses on spatial inequality defined as inequality in the living standards between people located in different geographical areas (city, region, country). The aim is to describe and explain the research on spatial inequality addressing different issues. The first part of the study...

This chapter assesses the role of firms' financial resources used to begin export activity. We propose a new methodology to identify a priori constrained firms, exploiting a rich dataset on Italian firms' assets and liabilities. We provide evidence that the entry probability in the export market...

This chapter analyses the role of traditional factors associated with Marshallian and Jacobsian economies (i.e. external agglomeration) and the role of factors associated to the intra-firm co-location of activities (i.e. internal agglomeration) in influencing location decisions of multinational...

Unemployment has become a focal topic of discussion in applied economics. In this paper, we provide an integrated overview of recent theoretical studies that link unemployment problems to spatial economics. We introduce four mechanisms commonly used to consider unemployment in this field:...

Geomarketing has become a critical domain for most of companies dealing with retailing and services for the three last decades. Usually, retail and service companies utilize geomarketing to make decisions about store location, trade area delineating, and customer plotting. Little by little new...