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About the authors and departments
Personal webpages:
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/whosWho/profiles/arodriguez-pose@lseacuk.aspx
Henry Overman: http://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/whosWho/profiles/hgoverman@lseacuk.aspx
Michael Storper: http://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/whosWho/profiles/mstorper@lseacuk.aspx
Geography and Environment Department:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/Home.aspx
Relevant research
For the spatially-blind camp:
Burchfield, M., Overman, H.G., Puga, D., Turner, M.A. 2006. Causes of sprawl: A portrait from space, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121 (2), pp. 587-633. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2667/
Duranton, G., Overman, H.G. 2005. Testing for localization using micro-geographic data, Review of Economic Studies, 72 (4), pp. 1077-1106. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/581/
For the place-based camp:
Farole, T., Rodríguez-Pose, A., Storper, M. 2011. Cohesion policy in the European Union: Growth, geography, institutions, Journal of Common Market Studies, 49 (5), pp. 1089-1111. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/30793/
Rodríguez-Pose, A., Crescenzi, R. 2008. Research and development, spillovers, innovation systems, and the genesis of regional growth in Europe, Regional Studies, 42 (1), pp. 51-67. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/23326/
Rodríguez-Pose, A. and Storper, M. 2006. Better rules or stronger communities? On the social foundations of institutional change and its economic effects. Economic Geography, 82(1), pp. 1-25. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/4886/
Storper, M., Venables, A.J. 2004, Buzz: Face-to-face contact and the urban economy, Journal of Economic Geography, 4 (4), pp. 351-370. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/1311/
Evidence of impact
Reports
Barca, F. 2009. An Agenda for A Reformed Cohesion Policy: A Place-Based Approach to Meeting European Union Challenges and Expectations, Independent Report Prepared at the Request of the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Danuta Hübner, European Commission, Brussels. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/regi/dv/barca_report_/barca_report_en.pdf
CAF. 2010. Desarrollo Local: Hacia un Nuevo Protagonismo de las Ciudades y Regiones. Caracas: Corporación Andina de Fomento. http://www.caf.com/es/actualidad/noticias/2010/06/desarrollo-local-hacia-un-nuevo-protagonismo-de-las-ciudades-y-regiones
OECD. 2009. How Regions Grow, Paris: Organisation for Economic Growth and Development. http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/howregionsgrowtrendsandanalysis.htm
OECD. 2009. Regions Matter: Economic Recovery, Innovation and Sustainable Growth, Paris: Organisation for Economic Growth and Development. http://www.oecd.org/gov/regional-policy/regionsmattereconomicrecoveryinnovationandsustainablegrowth.htm
OECD. 2011, Regional Outlook 2011, Paris: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/oecd-regional-outlook-2011_9789264120983-en
World Bank. 2009. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/12/03/000333038_20081203234958/Rendered/PDF/437380REVISED01BLIC1097808213760720.pdf
Relevant video and audio
‘Territorial approach to local development’, TALD Workshop, 13 July 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezu2z0B9t_4