European Regional Competitiveness Scoreboard
The European regional competitiveness scoreboard offers a powerful tool for analysing a region’s competitive position and its position in global economic networks, using a visualisation of regional data.
View ArticleMulti-regional trade data on Europe in 2010
PBL developed an update of the available regional trade data on Europe. This report sets out how these regional trade data were developed by PBL for the year 2010.
View ArticleCompetitive network positions in trade and structural economic growth
In this paper, the authors identify two components of European regional economic growth: demand-led growth due to growing export markets and structural growth due to growing market shares in those...
View ArticleThe regional economic effects of flooding
This article analyses the regional economic effects of flooding on regions not directly affected.
View ArticleHandbook of Regions and Competitiveness: Contemporary Theories and...
On 27 February, the European Commission released an update of the European Competitiveness Index. In this index, the Dutch region of Utrecht dropped from being the first to being the second most...
View ArticleUnderstanding the social geographies of urban regions
Economic restructuring and changing demographic and migration patterns have significantly altered the composition of the population in urban regions.
View ArticleThe continental divide? Economic exposure to Brexit in regions and countries...
In this article we demonstrate that 10-17% of regional GDP in the UK regions is exposed to a Brexit. This is far more than regions in other countries.
View ArticleSimulating the joint distribution of individuals, households and dwellings in...
This article proposes a sample-based methodology for synthesizing individuals, households and dwellings in small areas, illustrated using a case study of Amsterdam.
View ArticleUrban regions as engines of economic growth
According to the recent PBL study 'Urban regions as engines of economic growth', in most countries, new regional economic policies are needed. Policies in which national and regional agendas are...
View ArticleShort-term effects of the Brexit
This study examines where the Brexit’s initial effects would be the greatest for the competitiveness of sectors in the Netherlands. We look at the effects per sector and region.
View ArticleSpatial density and mix use in the Netherlands (RUDIFUN)
RUDIFUN data can be used by government authorities, spatial researchers, urban planners and urban designers to investigate the coherence between spatial density and the mixed use that blends...
View ArticleThe implications of re-exports for gravity equation estimation, NAFTA and Brexit
This paper illustrates the importance of taking into account re-exports. It shows that not taking into account re-exports causes estimates from the gravity model (the standard economic trade model) to...
View ArticleAssessment of the investments by the European Institute of Innovation and...
This study is the first attempt at assessing the regional economic impacts of investments by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), using a spatially explicit macroeconomic model.
View ArticleLearning through collaboration
Based on an earlier evaluation of the city deals in the Netherlands, Marloes Dignum, David Hamers and David Evers have now written a chapter for an international edited volume that addresses strategies...
View ArticleIlluminating the Black Box of the Government to Governance Transformation...
In addition to the evaluation of the city deals in the Netherlands carried out by PBL in 2017, David Evers, Marloes Dignum and David Hamers have now published an article for an international scholarly...
View ArticleRehearsing the future
The future of urban development, infrastructure and mobility is cloaked in great uncertainty. The Netherlands is on the eve of a number of far-reaching developments, that are difficult to oversee.
View ArticleBuilding obsolescence in the evolving city. Reframing property vacancy and...
This conceptual article analyses how both policymakers and academics often discuss the state of buildings. Property vacancy and abandonment are generally approached statically, in an undifferentiated...
View ArticleThe Implications of Brexit for UK and EU Regional Competitiveness
At the end of 2020, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union (Brexit). This will have certain major and different impacts on the competitive position of Dutch provinces and economic sectors.
View ArticleTheorising in urban and regional studies: negotiating generalisation and...
This open access paper is an introduction to an issue of CJRES (Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society), dedicated to the question of how, in urban and regional studies, one goes about...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 crisis and manufacturing: How should UK national and local...
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis, and related recession, represents one of the biggest shocks to the UK manufacturing ecosystem yet, and comes at a time when that ecosystem was already in a worrying...
View ArticleUrban development in Europe brought into view
The SUPER project (Sustainable urbanization and land-use Practices in European Regions) analysed land-use changes in Europe since 2000 and provided insight on how to enhance the sustainability of urban...
View ArticleRethinking the political economy of place: challenges of productivity and...
The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 revealed longer term systemic problems in global capitalism, two of the most prominent being the slowdown in the underlying trend in productivity growth and a...
View ArticleEvaluation of EIB Cohesion financing (2007 to 2018)
The EU treaties entrust the European Investment Bank (EIB) with supporting the reduction of regional disparities in the Union, notably by financing projects in less-developed EU regions.
View ArticleRenewing industrial regions? Advanced manufacturing and industrial policy in...
In many countries, industrial policy is back in vogue.
View ArticleTerritorial impacts of COVID-19 and policy answers in European regions and...
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis of social, political and economic systems throughout Europe and the world. Since March 2020, European authorities have taken diverse measures to...
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