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Handbook Of Regional Growth And Development Theories

Edited by Roberta Capello, Professor of Regional Economics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Peter Nijkamp, Professor of Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contents:

Introduction: Regional Growth and Development Theories in the Twenty-first Century – Recent Theoretical Advances and Future Challenges
Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp

PART I: GROWTH THEORIES AND SPACE
1. Theories of Agglomeration and Regional Economic Growth: A Historical Review
Philip McCann and Frank van Oort

2. Space, Growth and Development
Roberta Capello

3. Location/Allocation of Regional Growth
Gunther Maier and Michaela Trippl

4. Regional Growth and Trade in the New Economic Geography and Other Recent Theories
Kieran P. Donaghy

5. Endogenous Growth Theories: Agglomeration Benefits and Transportation Costs
G. Alfredo Minerva and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

PART II: DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: REGIONAL PRODUCTION FACTORS
6. Agglomeration, Productivity and Regional Growth: Production Theory
Approaches
Jeffrey P. Cohen and Catherine J. Morrison Paul

7. Territorial Capital and Regional Development
Roberto Camagni

8. Human Capital and Regional Development
Alessandra Faggian and Philip McCann

9. Infrastructure and Regional Development
Johannes Bröcker and Piet Rietveld

10. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Nijkamp

PART III: DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE AND SPACE
11. Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
David B. Audretsch and T. Taylor Aldridge

12. R&D Spillovers and Regional Growth
Daria Denti

13. Knowledge and Regional Development
Börje Johansson and Charlie Karlsson

14. Agglomeration Externalities, Innovation and Regional Growth: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis
Henri L.F. de Groot, Jacques Poot and Martijn J. Smit

15. Sustainable Development and Regional Growth
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Peter Nijkamp

PART IV: REGIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT MEASUREMENT METHODS
16. Measuring Agglomeration
Ryohei Nakamura and Catherine J. Morrison Paul

17. Measuring the Regional Divide
Roberto Ezcurra and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

18. Measuring Regional Endogenous Growth
Robert J. Stimson, Alistair Robson and Tung-Kai Shyy

19. Regional Growth and Convergence: Heterogeneous Reaction versus Interaction in Spatial Econometric Approaches
Cem Ertur and Julie Le Gallo

20. CGE Modeling in Space: A Survey
Kieran P. Donaghy

21. Modern Regional Input–Output and Impact Analyses
Jan Oosterhaven and Karen R. Polenske

PART V: REGIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
22. Institutions and Regional Development
T.R. Lakshmanan and Kenneth J. Button

23. Regional Policy: Rationale, Foundations and Measurement of its Effects
Jouke van Dijk, Henk Folmer and Jan Oosterhaven

24. New Regional Policies for Less Developed Areas: The Case of India
Maria Abreu and Maria Savona

25. Economic Decline and Public Intervention: Do Special Economic Zones Matter?
Peter Friedrich and Chang Woon Nam

Index
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