February 12th-13th, 2009
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Organized by the Banco de la República de Colombia
The Regional Science Association of the Americas, RSAmericas, invites you to submit papers for its first conference and annual meeting, which will focus on topics of regional science and urban studies. Suggested topics for this conference:
- Regional convergence and its determinants
- City specialization and diversification
- Institutions, geography and regional growth
- Urban and regional development policies
- Decentralization and regional disparities
- Integration and economic activity localization
- Agglomeration economies
- Methods of regional and urban analysis
- Spatial econometrics
- Spatial data analysis
- City formation
- Distribution and size of cities
- Determinants of regional and urban income
- Differences in the cost of living among cities
- Wages and city structures
- Migrations between regions and cities
- The environment and urban and regional development
- Free trade agreements and regional development
- Capital and social networks
- Relationships between interpersonal and interregional income distributions
- Demographic methods
- Economic geography
- Infrastructure development
- Innovations and entrepreneurial initiatives
- New technologies in spatial context
- Sustainable development
Papers will be submitted to the evaluation process of the RSAmericas Program Committee. Each accepted paper will be presented at the Conference held February 12th and 13th, 2009, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, co-sponsored by Banco de la República, Colombia. Registration is required for participation in the conference. Interested parties should submit an abstract (mx. 500 words) in English of their papers and a brief (max. 400 words) version of the cv of all the authors by November 28th, 2008, to the email ceer@banrep.gov.co and ceer.banrep@gmail.com. Abstract and CV should be in PDF or Word format. The abstract file name should start with the word “abstract” followed by the last names of the first two authors. Each cv file should be named after the last name of the author (one cv per file).Final decisions will be announced by December 16th, 2008. Complete papers should be sent by January 13th, 2009. All presentations will be in English and will be limited to 20 minutes. For further information, please contact the secretariat of the conference at lgalviap@banrep.gov.co and lgalvis74@gmail.com. |
