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Call for Papers: The 11th International Workshop on Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China

发布日期：2024-03-02

Call for Papers

The 11^th International Workshop on Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China

June14-15, 2024, Nanjing, China

National School of Development and Policy at Southeast University, and School of Economics and Management of Southeast University, together with Growth and change and Journal of Regional Science are pleased to announce that we are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Regional, Urban and Spatial Economics in China at Southeast University, Nanjing, China during June14-15, 2024.

Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to have the following distinguished keynote speakers:

1. Shihe Fu, Wuhan University, China
2. Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Centre de Recercaen Economia International, Spain
3. Mark Partridge, Ohio State University, USA
4. Junfu Zhang, Clark University, USA

1. Shihe Fu

Dr.Fu is a professor of economics at Wuhan University, specializing in urban and labor economics. His research interests include regional and real estate economics, environmental economics, applied econometrics and economic growth of China. He received a Ph.D. from Boston College and a Master from Nankai Institute of Economics, both in economics. Professor Fu has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal papers. He led a key project of the National Social Science Fund in 2007, and led a general project of the National Science Fund in 2017. He is also a forensic expert in environmental pollution damage during 2019-2024.

2. Dávid Krisztián Nagy

Dr. Dávid Krisztián Nagy is a Senior Researcher at Centre de Recercaen Economia International (CREI), an Adjunct Professor at University at Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2016. His research focuses on international trade and economic geography, aims at developing quantitative structural tools and combining them with data to examine the drivers of the spatial distribution of economic activity. He has won the Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize for his paper “The geography of development” (joint with Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).He also serves as a Co-Editor of the Regional Science and Urban Economics.

3. Mark Partridge

Dr. Mark Partridge is the C. William Swank Chair of Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University and a Professor in the AED Economics Department. He is also an economic consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Adjunct Professor at Jinan University, Guangzhou China; and Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy. Prior, he was the Canada Research Chair in the New Rural Economy at the University of Saskatchewan. Professor Partridge has published over 125 peer-reviewed journal papers. His work has been ranked number one in regional science and among the top-1000 economist.
4. Junfu Zhang
Dr.Zhang is a professor of economics at Clark University, specializing in urban and regional economics. His research interests include urbanization in China, regional development, entrepreneurship and job creation, high-tech industrial clusters, and racial housing segregation. He received a B.A. from Renmin University of China and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, both in economics. He was a dissertation fellow at the Brookings Institution during 2000-2001. Before joining Clark University in 2006, He worked as a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. He served as the president of the Chinese Economists Society (CES) from 2019-2020. He has been an IZA research fellow since 2007.

Paper Submission and Registration

Following the tradition of previous highly successful workshops to date, we aim to continue to attract high-quality research output, further increase the academic visibility of regional, urban, and spatial issues in the world and particularly in China, and reinforce the research network for top level China-focused scholars from across the globe. We welcome submissions on the following themes:

Ø Agglomeration and new economic geography

Ø Environment, energy, and sustainable development

Ø Firm and household location decisions

Ø Land use and land-use policy

Ø Regional growth and development

Ø Transportation and Urban Development

Ø Urban governance and its optimization, including community governance

Ø Urban growth, dynamics, and transformation

Ø Urban network and spatial interdependencies

Ø Urban and regional policy evaluation

Ø Urbanization and migration

Ø Urban Amenity and Sustainable City

Ø Spatial Structure and Urban Innovation

Ø Land Use Regulation and Welfare

Ø High-quality Public Service and Urban Governance

Ø Cities and Environment

Ø Housing Issues: Supply, Demand, Prices, Affordability, and Policies

Ø Any other topics on regional, urban and spatial issues in China

For those who are interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please submit in English a draft paper or an extended abstract (roughly 200-500 words, identifying the research question clearly and presenting basic results) through email to ruse2024@163.com, mentioning “paper submission for RUSE2024” in the subject headline of the email. For the convenience of organization, please include your detailed contact information (name, affiliation, phone number, as well as email address) in your submission.

The submission deadline is May 1^st, 2024. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by May10^th, 2024 and a complete paper in English is due on June 1^st, 2024.

There is no registration fee for attending the conference. Participants only need to pay their own cost of accommodation and transportation.

Further Information

Southeast University, as one of the time-honored institutions of higher learning in China with profound cultural heritage, its origin can be traced back to 1902. Southeast University is a comprehensive research-oriented university featuring engineering discipline while covering many other disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, art and so on. In the spirit of patriotism and concerning people all over the world, Southeast University has been always making unyielding efforts in pursuit of prominence to achieve scientific progress and national rejuvenation, forges ahead with determination, explores and innovates to continue to promote high-quality development in discipline construction, personnel training, fostering teaching staff, scientific research, social services, and international education.

The school of Economics and Management of the Southeast University has become one of the colleges with the largest number of professional categories and has the largest number of students in the Southeast University. Adhering to the concept of "Innovation is the Future," the school shoulders the mission of "nurturing the talents having the world at heart, casting access to new knowledge of the past and the present," takes discipline construction as the leading aim, focuses on moral education and the major strategic needs of the country, and strives to cultivate talent. To realize its vision that “All Students Will Make a Difference”, the school forges ahead with determination, explores and innovates to continue to promote high-quality development in discipline construction, personnel training, fostering teaching staff, scientific research, social services, and international education.

Local Organization Committee

For further inquiries, please contact Mr. Chen in the Local Organization Committee.

Prof. Xiuyan Liu

Assistant Dean, School of Economics and Management, Southeast University

Prof. Yingcheng Li

Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University

Dr. Hao Li

Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management, Southeast University

E-mail:lihao2021@seu.edu.cn

Dr. Zheng Ran

National School of Development and Policy, Southeast University

E-mail:ranz@seu.edu.cn

Tel.: +86 19895383998

Dr. Lu Chen

School of Economics and Management, Southeast University

E-mail:lucas_chen@seu.edu.cn

Tel.: +86 17351020155

Scientific Committee

Chen, Anping, Jinan University

Chen, Jie, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Chen, Zhao, Fudan University

He, Canfei, Peking University (Editor of Growth and Change).

Hua, Yue, Hunan University

Liu, Xiuyan, Southeast University

Xiao, Wei, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Zhao, Kent, Xiamen University

Zhang, Dayong, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Zheng, Siqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Editor of Journal of Regional Science).

Zhu, Shengjun, Peking University (Editor of Growth and Change).

Previous Workshops

2012, Jinan University, Guangzhou

2013, Peking University, Beijing

2014, Fudan University, Shanghai

2015, Tsinghua University, Beijing

2016, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu

2017, Xiamen University, Xiamen

2018, Hunan University, Changsha

2019, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai

2022, Southwestern University of Economics and Finance, Chengdu

2023, Peking University, Beijing