Europe’s regional #inequality persists not because poorer places lack #investment, but because #income leaks away from them with regularity.
@andrecarrascal.bsky.social & Hewings show in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social how capitals are suction pumps in #Europe’s economic system.
doi.org/10.1080/1742...
Lots still to do on the matter, but really happy with this one in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social @universidadoviedo.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social #inequality #regions
📄 doi.org/10.1080/1742...
Bad news: direct transfers to poorer regions may end up widening inequality once that money is spent, because it flows back through value chains. These structural asymmetries are deeply rooted (via productive specialization) and very resistant to change. #leftbehindplaces #developmenttrap
Richer, urban regions receive more income than they send out. Île-de-France, Inner London, Lombardy, Madrid… always in the positive, in 2000 and 2010.
Rural and peripheral regions do the opposite: they generate spillovers for others but capture little of what flows back. And this is structural.
We use a MRIO model that endogenises household income and consumption. This lets us see each region's position in interregional income value chains: how much income a region generates for others (spillovers) vs how much it receives (spillins). And, the process of spatial income distribution.
#Interregionalinequality in Europe has barely changed in decades (see www.jstor.org/stable/48594...). And the usual indices (Gini, Theil…) tell us how much inequality there is, but not why it keeps coming back.
What happens inside the economies that makes income always end up in the same places?
Finally out! 🎉 And this one together with Geoff Hewings makes me specially glad. I think we've managed to show something that hadn't been done before at this scale.
Why do rich regions keep accumulating income even when poorer ones grow? A thread 👇
📄 doi.org/10.1080/1742...
Fellow econ instructors: I'm giving a brief webinar tomorrow (Feb 18), "AI Won’t Replace Econ Professors—But It Will Change How We Teach."
Short version: I'm trying to stay on top AI-meets-teaching stuff, so you don't have to. #TeachEcon
Sign up here: macmillanlearning.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
word cloud 2024
What is the most pressing problem economists today should be addressing? The results of our annual word cloud exercise, where we ask CORE students around the world to answer this question, are now online. Take a look here: www.core-econ.org/what-is-the-... #inequality #inflation
What is inflation? What is hyperinflation? How can it be controlled? Paul Segal (IAE Business School, Austral University, Argentina) explores these questions in his CORE Insight from the Global South "The sky’s the limit: The economics of inflation & hyperinflation". www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEFI...
I am looking for a PhD student in energy economics starting in the fall, focusing on household-level energy use and energy poverty.
More info: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026
Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF).
⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB
📆In the second of our annual reviews, we bring together ten posts examining the culture of academic publishing. Enjoy!
#ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
Food for thought!
"Beyond borders: how spillovers and commercial networks shape European productivity" by André Carrascal-Incera, Weilin Liu, Luis Orea, and Robin C. Sickles
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🪧 Nova convocatoria de artigos na #RGE
🩺Economía da saúde: retos, evidencias e política nun mundo cambiante
Manuel Ruiz Adame (UGR), Bruno Casal Rodríguez (UDC), David Patiño Rodríguez (US) e Susana Martínez Rodríguez (UM)
📅 Data límite de envío: 28 de febreiro, 2026
📲 Máis info: bit.ly/4k4svse
Had a great time doing a @centreforcities.bsky.social podcast on our new paper (joint work with @maxnathan.bsky.social and @diana-gupo.bsky.social). Have a read of the paper, listen to the podcast and get in touch for more info!
links 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"We are tackling the link between creatives and gentrification."
@tasoskitsos.bsky.social of Aston Business School talks his latest paper on creative firms, workers, and neighbourhood gentrification 🎧
Listen now 👇
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📣📣 Very happy to see our work on #regional #pay #disparities in the UK out.
#econsky📈📉
#geosky
@astonpress.bsky.social
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
@resfoundation.bsky.social
Have a look at the event and the report and stay tuned for more!
👀👇
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Greg Thwaites, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, said: “England is beset by stark and persistent geographic wage inequalities, with Londoners’ typical earning twice as much as those living in places like Liskeard or Cromer. It’s often assumed that people are driving these divides, but in fact place-based pay penalties are rife across England. A typical early career worker could lose out on £1,300 a year just because of where their job is located. “Policy makers at local, regional and national levels can address these divides by creating the conditions for high-paying firms to locate to their areas, while avoiding an arms race between regions in subsidies for firms. “Moving to higher-paying areas can hugely boost young people’s career earnings, but housing is a major barrier to making these moves. Policy makers should do more to bring these housing barriers down.”
🚨 New research published today
Our latest report by Richmond Egyei @emilyfry.bsky.social @tasoskitsos.bsky.social @gthwaites.bsky.social @dalilariba.bsky.social & Enrico Vanino looks at the impact of place in regional inequality.
Read more ⬇️
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🎓 Today, Michel Philippe Lioussis defended his #PhD #thesis “Services’ Economic and Social Effects in a Globalized World”. (Advisor: Monica Serrano). Congratulations! 🎉
#Productivity in #Europe is a team sport, say @andrecarrascal.bsky.social & coauthors in their new paper.
Trade spillovers, sectoral interdependencies & digitalisation shape local fortunes far beyond national borders.📉📈
Those who ignore these links are playing with half a map
doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Thanks for sharing and for this great summary, Andrés! Humbled by your nice words!
The fall semester is almost over and with it my conference season ends with the Spanish Economic Association conference in Mallorca's winter.
I'll teach Econ 101 to non-economists next semester. I've been using some short videos to motivate how economists think and view the world. Some highlights:
The undergrad Econ major serves many kinds of students. #econsky #academicsky #stanford
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2024/12/rede...
📢 @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social, Crhistian González and I invite you to our special session “SS10: Regional Inequalities and Perceived Left-Behindness” at @regstud.bsky.social's #RSA25 in Porto. Submit your abstract and find the session description below: 👇
www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...
I am getting more engaged on here and looking to help. I created a #Teachecon starter pack but want to make sure I didn’t miss anyone. Here is what I have so for, please share with reply with who I missed
go.bsky.app/NrQoJEn
#EconSky you can use the Bluesky data for free to do your research!!! Go find some cool stuff!
A graph comparing Spanish and German gdp, which diverge in 2008 but reconverge between 2017-2024
Here’s a crazy fact for you: Spain and Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.
Hi #EconSky,
Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Interested following the people behind Spatial Economic Analysis? This is our starter pack (which will be continuously updated):
go.bsky.app/8gDLPXT
