Special issue: Macro and micro perspectives on location, innovation, trade, migration and regional growth

• Date: 01 August 2018
• Published date: 01 August 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12308

EDITORIAL

Special issue: Macro and micro perspectives on

location, innovation, trade, migration and regional

growth

This volume includes a selection of the papers presented at the final conference of ISCH COST Action

IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evalu-

ation”, a research network funded by the European Union, that took place at Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

on 25–27 May, 2016. The objective of the Action has been to address issues related to the uneven dis-

tribution of economic activity within the EU by developing new techniques suitable for the analysis of

large economic systems and then applying them to the study of a variety of social and economic issues.

In particular, research has targeted three broad areas where improved techniques for policy evaluation

can have a significant impact on the welfare of EU citizens: research on economic geography

addressed problems related to the patterns of inter-regional and international trade, the institutions and

markets research group focused on issues related to labor markets (migration) and financial market

(systemic risk), while the social and industrial interactions research group examined issues ranging

from network security to industrial competitiveness.

The first two papers on this issue have been contributed by the two keynote speakers of the confer-

ence: Professor Masahisa Fujita from the University of Kyoto who has made seminal contributions in

the economics of knowledge creation and economic geography and Professor Takatoshi Tabuchi who

has made significant contributions in economic geography and industrial organization. Among the

other papers presented at the conference and submitted for potential publication in this issue we first

selected those with subjects that fit with the general objectives of this journal and then we accepted for

publication those that have successfully gone through a peer-review process.

The Editors

Spiros Bougheas

1

Pasquale Commendatore

2

Ingrid Kubin

3

1

School of Economics, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

2

Department of Law, University of Naples “Federico II”, Via Mezzocannone 16, 80138 Naples, Italy

3

Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1,

1020 Vienna, Austria

Correspondence

Spiros Bougheas, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.

Email: spiros.bougheas@nottingham.ac.uk

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