Spatial Economics Volume II

lt;b>Stefano Colombo is Associate Professor of Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. He is Advisory Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. He has written numerous articles on spatial economics, industrial organisation and regional science, and he was ranked among the Top 100 of 10 core regional science publications.

Part I Development and Cities. - 1. Urban Resilience and Spatial Economics. - 2. A Balanced Development? The Novel s -mi Efficiency of Italian Regions. - Part II Growth - 3. Modelling and Forecasting Regional Growth: The MASST Model. - 4. On the Spatial Determinants of Firm Growth: A Microlevel Analysis of the Italian SMEs. - Part III Inequality. - 5. Spatial Inequality: A Multidimensional Perspective. - 6. The Spatial Dimension of Inequality. - Part IV Transportation and International Trade. - 7. Export Activity and Firms' Financial Constraints. - Part V Location and Employment. - 8. Geographical Boundaries of External and Internal Agglomeration Economies - 9. Unemployment and Trade in Spatial Economics. - Part VI Marketing. - 10. From Geomarketing to Spatial Marketing.