The main item of agreement between the ‘new’ and ‘old’ economic geography is the role of increasing returns in regional economic development. This provides a focal point for the model of this paper, which aims to highlight the existence of a ‘third way’ somewhere between the analysis provided by these two competing modes of explanation. Increasing returns are represented by the Verdoorn Law lin...

In this paper we show how the dynamic behavior of human actors and their influence on land use change can be modeled to produce spatially explicit simulations of future land use. An actor-based dynamic systems approach is integrated with the existing APoLUS (Actor, Policy and Land Use Simulator) cellular automata land use model. Previous versions of APoLUS determined final total land use amount...

The objective of this research is to analyze regional economic difference and explore the influencing factors, which would eventually provide an effective foundation to narrow the regional economic differences. In this paper, a new regional economic difference model is established considering the interactions between the spatial weight and human capital and foreign direct investment (FDI). With...

This study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and commercial activities and regional economic development today. Further empirical analyses show that medieval trade posit...

For a long time, China's economic development ignore the constraints of resources and environmental costs but onesided pursue GDP. In 2014, the State Council issued a document to develop the Yangtze River economic zone into a "green ecological corridor". The green development of the Yangtze River economic zone is of high-profile. This paper attempts to consider the resource and environmental fa...

B anking industry performance and failure rates since the mid-1980s have followed a pattern that is tied closely to regional economic conditions. The pattern begins with increases in bank loan concentrations in areas related to a region's growth, followed by deterioration in asset quality, earnings, and capital when regional recessions appear. Moreover, rapid growth in bank assets often accompa...

recent strong growth of china’s exports has elevated the country to a rising global economic power and caused geo-political concern to policy-makers in the country and its trading partners world-wide. what are the determinants of this growth, how has it affected major economies in asean (world bank, 2009) in particular, and what kind of evidence-based responses are required and appropriate? the...

This paper examines regional differences in subjective well-being (SWB) in Germany. Inferential statistics indicate a diminishing but still significant gap between East and West Germany, but also differing levels of SWB within both parts of Germany. The observed regional pattern of life satisfaction reflects macroeconomic fundamentals, where labour market conditions play a dominant role. Differ...

Investment in transportation infrastructure is widely assumed to spur economic growth, a belief that persists among both the general public and government officials. However, research has provided inconsistent evidence to date, and many researchers believe that good transportation is a necessary but insufficient condition for regional growth. This study examines the issue from a different persp...

Economic growth in China is accompanied by many problems, such as rapid deterioration of the environment and a sharp decline in the area of arable land. China’s current land-use planning system fails to deal with these problems, especially at the regional level. The lack of sustainable spatial allocation at regional level has become a pressing problem. This article aims to: (1) analyze the reas...