Economic Geography

Ghent 2018
The 9th meeting of the Summer Institute will be hosted by the Department of Geography at Ghent University, Belgium, July 8-13, 2018, prior to the Fifth Global Conference in Economic Geography in Cologne, Germany later in the same month.

The Ghent meeting is being organized by Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox, and Jamie Peck.

This event is generously supported by:

Universiteit Gent

Economic Geography/Clark University

Featured speakers
Jennifer Clark
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy; Director, Center for Urban Innovation
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, UK

Michael Samers
Associate Professor of Economic and Urban Geography, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, USA

Kendra Strauss
Associate Professor and Director, Labour Studies Program; Associate Member, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Erik Swyngedouw
Professor of Geography, School of Education, Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK

To apply for a place at the Ghent meeting, please go to the Apply page. http://www.econgeog.net

The 10th meeting of the Summer Institute will take place in Latin America in 2020. Further details will be posted here when available.

Dear Colleagues,

We just want to keep you informed about the GCEG 2018 to be held in Cologne from July 24 to July 28, 2018.

1. Submit your session

The call for sessions is open until October 2, 2017. You can now submit a session using the online system on our website.
Here is a quick reminder of the most important dates for the GCEG 2018:

Registration                  July 24, 2017 – May 1, 2018
Call for sessions         July 24, 2017 – October 2, 2018
Call for abstracts        November 15, 2017 – March 15, 2018

2. Half-day excursions available for booking

In addition to the scientific sessions at the conference venue, a wide choice of academic excursions is being provided by the GCEG 2018. You can either book half-day excursions during the registration process or later via booking additional packages. All the information about the half-day excursions can be found on our website.

3. Accommodation

Choose from a rich offer of hotels using our accommodation service. Our partners provide a booking website with favourable booking conditions for reservations for the duration of the conference. Please follow the link on our website to book at special rates.

We look forward to welcoming you in Cologne!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yours sincerely,

Professor Peter Dannenberg
Chairman Local Organizing Committee
 
 

Pierre-Alexandre Ballard is making available EconGeo, a new software (in R) to easily compute a series of indices commonly used in the fields of economic geography, economic complexity, and evolutionary economics to describe the location, distribution, spatial organization, structure, and complexity of economic activities. A short introduction to this R package is available here: http://econ.geo.uu.nl/peeg/peeg1709.pdf.

Abstract: The R statistical software is increasingly used to perform analysis on the spatial distribution of economic activities. It contains state-of-the-art statistical and graphical routines not yet available in other software such as SAS, Stata, or SPSS. R is also free and open-source. Many graduate students and researchers, however, find programming in R either too challenging or end up spending a lot of their precious time solving trivial programming tasks. This paper is a simple introduction on how to do economic geography in R using the EconGeo package (Balland, 2017). Users do not need extensive programming skills to use it. EconGeo allows to easily compute a series of indices commonly used in the fields of economic geography, economic complexity, and evolutionary economics to describe the location, distribution, spatial organization, structure, and complexity of economic activities. Functions include basic spatial indicators such as the location quotient, the Krugman specialization index, the Herfindahl or the Shannon entropy indices but also more advanced functions to compute different forms of normalized relatedness between economic activities or network-based measures of economic complexity. By opening and sharing the codes used to compute popular indicators of the spatial distribution of economic activities, one of the goals of this package is to make peer-reviewed empirical studies more reproducible by a large community of researchers.