‼️ #ERSA2021 Congress ‼️ Registration is open! bit.ly/3z2i7en ✔️Follow the largest event of regional science ✔️6 prestigious Keynote lectures & 2 outstanding round tables lead by the @EU_ScienceHub and OECD SMEs, Regions, Cities & Tourism ✔️+800 accepted authors from over 50 countries

And we're off with this year's #RSAWinterCollege and 26 participants from 5 continents - it's fantastic to have you all with us today for the next two days of presentations, keynotes and career development sessions!

.Chiara Ferrante providing a brief literature review on the geography of #discontent in her #RSAWinterCollege presentation.

#GCEG2022 Lunch Break NOW👇

Check out our latest article on the Italian Journal of Regional Science, co-authored with Prof Nicola Pontarollo, where we show how a good regional institutional quality might help defusing populist tendencies. rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14650/1…

Today I start a new column named "ItaMaps" that will feature self-contained maps of the Italian territory. I'll try to publish a couple of maps per month. I start with a map of the "per capita expenditure on gambling in Italian municipalities"

Look at this! 💯

Can local shocks lead people to embrace authoritarian populism? In a joint paper with Chiara Ferrante and Marco Letta, just published in European Economic Review, we show that two destructive earthquakes in Italy resulted in sharply diverging electoral outcomes. 1/5👇

Electoral earthquakes: Local shocks and authoritarian voting dlvr.it/SqYC77

Quali sono le conseguenze sul comportamento elettorale di popolazioni colpite da disastri naturali? Ne parlano AUGUSTO CERQUA, Chiara Ferrante e Marco Letta lavoce.info/archives/10152…

Exploring the long-term impacts of mass layoffs on local labor markets with AUGUSTO CERQUA & Guido Pellegrini. Our research, now published in the Sept '23 issue of the Journal of Economic Geography, reveals a marked, statistically significant negative effect primarily…

📢Some updates: ✅A new version (with extensive simulations and a new application) is out: arxiv.org/abs/2312.05858 🔧The R package is now fully operational: github.com/FMenchetti/Mac… 📌A Replication Notebook is also available: marclet.github.io/MLCM-Replicati…

📢Research Fellowship opportunity (in Economic Statistics and Demography) at the Dept MEMOTEF, Sapienza University of Rome! 🎯Topic: Depopulation and well-being ⚠️Deadline: Dec 31 ❗️High flexibility: work remotely ❗️PhD is not a strict requirement 🔗web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/ba…

Very grateful for this opportunity to present at the @geoinno2024. Very inspiring session organised by Dieter F. Kogler.

We just launched rknowledge.org - an interactive platform that provides advanced Knowledge Space indicators for over 1,000 regional economies across Europe and North America; intro: youtu.be/C4r2n258O08 and Regional Studies - @regionalstudies.bsky.social publication: doi.org/10.1080/003434… (1/5)

Very happy to share our latest publication where we assess how coherent S3 policies are in 3 Italian regions wrt their local knowledge space. To consult other European regions -> awekim.shinyapps.io/SS_shiny_R/