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Miguel Dols Fellows' Lecture Summer Term 2023

Hosted by the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

Online and in-person public event, MAR.1.04 (Marshall Building), United Kingdom

Speakers

Costanza Giannantoni

Costanza Giannantoni

PhD Candidate in Economics at Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome

Genghao Zhang

Genghao Zhang

PhD. Candidate in Economic Geography, University of Bristol

Dr. Enrique Acebo

Dr. Enrique Acebo

Assistant Professor of Management, University of León

José Joaquín Luque

José Joaquín Luque

PhD. Candidate in Economic History, University of Málaga

Zhuoying You

Zhuoying You

PhD. Candidate in the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation (MSI), KU Leuven

Chair

Prof. Juan José de Lucio

Prof. Juan José de Lucio

Professor in Economics, University of Alcalá - UAH

Moderator

Prof. Juan José de Lucio

Prof. Andrés Rodriguez-Pose

Professor of Economic Geography, Princesa de Asturias Chair and Director of the Cañada-Blanch Centre

Each term the Cañada-Blanch Centre at LSE organises a Fellow Lecture in which his visiting LSE-Miguel Dols Fellows present their ongoing research.

Meet our speakers

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Prof. Juan José de LucioProfessor at the Universidad de Alcalá – UAH, specialized in the field of applied economics analysis.

The negative impact of TCA on trade

Using firm level export and import transactions we quantify the impact of the UK's withdrawal from the EU's customs union on Spain-UK trade flows. We find that Spanish imports to the UK decreased by 27% relative to the period before the Brexit referendum. We also find an increase in prices related with compliance cost of TCA. On average, the compliance cost of an import transaction from the UK to Spain after Brexit is 4% of the transaction value. 

 

Costanza Giannantoni, PhD Candidate in Economics at Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, specialized on economic geography

Going Local: Public Spending, Bureaucratic Efficiency and Decentralization (with. A. Cerqua)

We study how local governments behave when new powers are assigned following the introduction of a decentralization reform. Decentralization is expected to get policy close to territories to provide quick and tailored answers to specific local needs thanks to higher allocative efficiency, a stronger match with local preferences, and the positive effects of yardstick competition among local governments. However, the overall benefits to local communities may spread unevenly within the country. In fact, by strengthening the power of local administrations, decentralization might amplify the effect of pre-existing differences in local government performance. We argue that the effects of decentralization policies on local public spending are heterogeneous in the institutional context. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the case of a major constitutional reform that took place in 2001 (L. Cost. 3/2001), which established a new set-up for dividing legislative power between the central state and the subnational levels of government in Italy.

 

Hao Zhang, PhD. Student in Human Geography, University of Bristol, specialized in Geography of Innovation.

Does Digital Transition Contribute to Green Transition or Over-consumption?: An Empirical Study in the UK

Scholars discuss whether the adoption of ICT and industry 4.0 technologies improve the situation of climate change, while European Commission formulates a new development strategy named Twin Transition. However, limited research investigates the spatiality of how digital transition affects green transition directly and indirectly in industrial and commercial sectors. This research conducts OLS and Ordinal Logistic regression methods for the regression of change rates of industrial greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). In addition, the OLS and spatial error model are adopted to conduct another regression analysis of change rates of commercial GHG. Results found that digital transition does not affect green transition directly and indirectly. Future research could investigate how digital transition influences green technology innovation at different spatial levels.

 

Dr. Enrique Acebo, Assistant Professor of Management, University of León, specialized in business and innovation

Does climate change promote environmental innovation?

This study investigates the influence of extreme climate change events on firms' engagement in environmental innovation. Previous research has primarily examined the impact of increased cost, regulatory policies and market demand, but this study expands the analysis to include both direct and indirect factors. The main hypotheses propose that firms directly affected by extreme climate events are more motivated to mitigate their climate impact through the introduction of environmental innovations. Additionally, communities exposed to such events are anticipated to exhibit increased environmental awareness, leading to changes in behaviour that pressure firms to adopt environmental innovation. The findings will shed light on the complex interplay between climate change events, firms' responses, and societal dynamics in driving environmental innovation.

 

José Joaquín Luque García, PhD. Candidate in Economic History, University of Málaga

The technical press specialising in gas: an introduction to its study

The manufactured gas industry, born at the beginning of the 19th century, developed throughout Europe between 1860 and 1880. The processes of manufacture and distribution of a gas derived from the carbonisation of coal were now established according to standards known to all operators. The circulation of know-how concerned most engineers and operations managers. It was the result of a system of information exchange, whose vectors were quite classic in the take-off of an industrial sector: study tours, regular correspondence, and the development of a corporate press.

England, thanks to the intense activity of Thomas G. Barlow, was a pioneer in the creation of periodicals that served to promote the communication of technical advances and the defence of common interests. In 1846, Barlow founded the Gas Gazette, although he had to abandon the project within a few months of starting it. Again, in 1849, he founded a new journal, the Journal of Gas Lighting, which was to have great success and longevity, being published until 1970.

Following Barlow's initiative, new journals proliferated in the various centres of development of the gas industry: in 1851, the Journal de l'Éclairage au Gaz was founded in Paris, and in 1856, the Journal Le Gaz. In Munich, the Journal Für Gasbeleuchtung was founded in 1858 and in the United States in 1859 the American Gas Light Journal.

These pioneering publications, together with those that were progressively founded in the second half of the 19th century, formed a transnational communication and knowledge transfer network. They published technical articles on new developments, industrial patents, court rulings and jurisprudence, as well as articles dedicated to the training of the different agents in the sector. But they also fostered the creation of close ties of affectivity and professional recognition. Proof of this is the importance of the obituaries of well-known deceased businessmen and engineers on their pages.

Due to the large volume of information, they contain, gas magazines are often used as an indispensable source for the study of the sector. However, they have not been studied as such to date. In this paper, we will approach them as an object of study and outline the main problems and opportunities they offer.

 

Zhouying You, PhD candidate in the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation (MSI), KU Leuven, specialized in business and innovation

Diversification and multilevel policy support as enablers of specialization in climate technologies at the regional level

The abstract: This study focuses on the influence of related and unrelated diversification on the intensification of specialization and on the emergence of new specialization in climate change mitigation technologies at regional level in Europe. We also investigate the moderating role of policy support from the regional, national, and EU regime. Based on fixed effect estimators on patent data related to climate technologies in 203 regions over the period 2006-2018, we find a positive effect of related diversification on the intensification of specialization and demonstrate a weakening role of national policy support. For the emergence of new specialization, we reveal a positive role of unrelated diversification, and a negative moderating effect for the stringency of national environmental tax, while the ideology of local dominant party exerts a positive and direct effect. We discuss implications for policy making in the field of climate change mitigation technologies.

 

Meet our chair

Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre LSE. He is a former Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009. He is a past-President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2015-2017) and served as Vice-President of the RSAI in 2014. He was also Vice-President (2012-2013) and Secretary (2001-2005) of the European Regional Science Association.

 

More about this event

The Cañada-Blanch Centre at LSE is the vehicle to achieve the objective of the Fundación Cañada Blanch: developing and reinforcing the links between the United Kingdom and Spain. This is done by means of fostering cutting-edge knowledge generation and joint research projects between researchers in the United Kingdom, and at the LSE in particular, on the one hand, and Spain, on the other.

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