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Journal of Regional Science
Edited by:
Marlon G. Boarnet, Steven Brakman, and Mark D. Partridge
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 79/209 Economics; 32/58 Environmental Studies; 21/43 Planning & Development
Impact Factor: 0.958
The Journal of Regional Science (JRS) publishes original analytical research at the intersection of economics and quantitative geography. Since 1958, the JRS has published leading contributions to urban and regional thought including rigorous methodological contributions and seminal theoretical pieces. The JRS is one of the most highly cited journals in urban and regional research, planning, geography, and the environment. The JRS publishes work that advances our understanding of the geographic dimensions of urban and regional economies, human settlements, and policies related to cities and regions.
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Steven Brakman joins the Journal of Regional Science Editorial Team
Steven Brakman has joined Marlon Boarnet and Mark Partridge as co-editor of the Journal of Regional Science. Matthew Kahn, co-editor since 2007, has left the editorial team to devote more time to his research and duties at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kahn will join past editors Andrew Haughwout, Walter Isard, Ronald Miller, Gordon Mulligan, and David Plane on the journal's Advisory Board of Former Editors. The journal's editorial offices will remain at UC Irvine.
Brakman provides an editorial presence in Europe, expanding the journal's international reach. He is Professor of International Economics at the University of Groningen, and honorary Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He was born in the political capital of Holland, The Hague. He studied economics at the University of Groningen where he graduated in 1981. His first working experience was at the Research Department of the Central Bank of the Netherlands, working mainly on monetary issues. He returned to the University of Groningen in 1985 to work on his Ph D, which was finished in 1991. His work has been published in the Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, and Regional Studies. The second edition of his book The New Introduction to Geographical Economics (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with Harry Garretsen and Charles van Marrewijk, has just been published. His website is: http://www.eco.rug.nl/~brakman/.
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TopHighlights
Theme Issue: Environmental Economics and Regional Science (February 2007)
Guest Editor: Matthew E. Kahn, Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Special Thematic Issue: Empirical Methods for the Study of Economic Agglomerations (February 2008)
Guest Editor: Gilles Duranton, Associate Professor of Economics and Noranda Chair in International Trade and Development, University of Toronto
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Where Do Cities Form? A Geographical Agglomeration Model for Europe
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Does Income Distribution Affect U.S. State Economic Growth?
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Urban Growth in the 1990s: Is City Living Back?
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The Spatial Distribution of Wages: Estimating the Helpman-Hanson Model for Germany
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