Overview
- The book offers an explicit analysis of the role of geography and institutions for local development
- It offers a significant coverage of EU countries and emerging economies
- Agglomeration economies and innovation are explicitly linked to immeterial (human-related) factors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Space, Growth and Development
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Space, growth and development
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Institutions and Culture
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Agglomeration Economies, the Location of Economic Activities and Innovation
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Agglomeration economies, the location of economic activities and innovation
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Geography in Motion: Trade, FDI and Migrations
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Geography in motion: Trade, FDI and Migrations
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Riccardo Crescenzi is Programme Director of the MSc in Local Economic Development and Lecturer in Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. He is also affiliated to the LSE Spatial Economics Research Centre. Before joining the LSE, Dr Crescenzi was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence). He was also a visiting scholar at the LSE and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research is focused on regional economic development and growth, innovation and EU development policies analysis. He has published in international journals, such as “Growth and Change”, “Regional Studies”, “The Journal of Economic Geography” and “The World Economy”. His teaching focuses on the economics of local and regional development.
Dr Marco Percoco is Assistant Professor in Urban, Regional and Transport Economics at the Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Management at Università Bocconi in Milan. He is also Deputy director for International Relations of the Centre for Regional Economics, Transport and Tourism (CERTET) at the same university. Dr Percoco serves in the board of the Italian Regional Science Association and in SR-Italian Journal of Regional Science. His research forcus on local development and transport economics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance
Editors: Riccardo Crescenzi, Marco Percoco
Series Title: Advances in Spatial Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33395-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-33394-1Published: 14 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43036-7Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-33395-8Published: 13 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1430-9602
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9375
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 436
Topics: Regional/Spatial Science, R & D/Technology Policy, European Integration, Economic Geography