AQR-IREA invites the submission of papers for presentation at the 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics

The University of Barcelona’s Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR-IREA) invites the submission of papers for presentation at the 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics Territorial resilience: mitigation and adaptation, to be held in Barcelona on October 4th-5th, 2018. The event will focus on different aspects of territorial resilience, with the aim of bringing together cutting-edge research papers around two axis.

The first axis concerns processes of mitigation (resistance-recovery), including topics such as migration analysis, inequality and social cohesion, and labour market issues. The second axis deals with adaptive resilience (re-orientation-renewal), considering ways to improve regional conditions, such as human capital and educational mismatches, entrepreneurship and self-employment, and regional development strategies, encompassing globalisation and trade and smart regional strategies.

Papers should be sent in pdf format to aqr_workshop(at)ub.edu before July 15th, 2018. Extended abstracts or incomplete drafts will also be considered, but full papers will be favoured. The notification of acceptance will be sent by July 23^rd, 2018.

The organisation will accommodate around 6-8 papers, to be presented in plenary sessions that will complement the keynote speaker’s presentation. Keynote speaker will include Alessandra Faggian (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila) and Péter Benczúr (Joint Research Centre, Ispra).

Deadline: July 15th, 2018. More information HERE.

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