Report NEP-GEO-2026-07-20

This is the archive for NEP-GEO, a report on new working papers in the area of Economic Geography. Andreas Koch issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Rudy Fernandez-Escobedo, 2026, "Structural Inertia in Regional Industrial Concentration: Persistence and Mobility across European Regions, 2017–2023," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, number 2610, Jun, revised Jun 2026.
• Cermeño, Alexandra L. & Salvo, Carla & Weisdorf, Jacob, 2025, "The Geographical Origins of the Wealth of Regions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20919, Dec.
• Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés & Xiang, Leiboyu & Lee, Neil, 2025, "Finding Stars: Mapping the Geography of the World’s Scientific Elites," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20970, Dec.
• Badilla-Maroto, Marco & Faber, Benjamin & Levy, Antoine & Munoz, Mathilde, 2026, "Senior Migration, Local Economic Development and Spatial Concentration," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21069, Jan.
• Ugo Fratesi & Pietro Vicari, 2026, "Firm Interactions and Potential Ecosystems: A Bottom-Up Approach to Territorial Network Analysis," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, number 2612, Jul, revised Jul 2026.
• Ottaviano, Gianmarco, 2026, "Digital Network Centrality and the Structure of Goods Trade," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21276, Mar.
• Dustmann, Christian & Otten, Sebastian & Schönberg, Uta & Stuhler, Jan, 2025, "The Effects of Immigration on Places and People: Identification and Interpretation," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20959, Dec.
• Lukas Boehnert, 2026, "The Regional Specialization Trade-off," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12798.
• Düben, Christian & Hodler, Roland & Raschky, Paul, 2026, "Regional Favoritism: New Data, Larger Sample, Same Pattern," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21239, Mar.
• Borsekova, Kamila & Korony, Samuel & Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés & Styk, Michal & Westlund, Hans, 2026, "Decoding Regional Dynamics: Institutions, Innovation, and Regional Development in the EU," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20988, Jan.
• à lvarez, Inmaculada C. & Barbero, Javier & Orea, Luis & Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, 2025, "How Institutions Shape the Economic Returns to Investment in European Regions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20969, Dec.
• Borin, Alessandro & Conteduca, Francesco Paolo & Leone, Fabrizio & Mancini, Michele & Zoi, Patrick, 2025, "How Global Are Local Value Chains?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20910, Dec.
• Gechter, Michael & Kala, Namrata, 2026, "Firm Presence, Pollution, and Agglomeration: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Place-Based Policy," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21060, Jan.
• Winters, John, 2026, "Human Capital in the Heartland: Evidence on Brain Drain," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18752, Jun.
• Sergio Petralia & Ron Boschma, 2026, "Actionable Disclosure in Patents: How Open Code Reduces Spatial Barriers to Knowledge Diffusion," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, number 2611, Jul, revised Jul 2026.
• E. Marrocu & R. Paci & L. Serafini, 2026, "Firms Partnering for the Twin Transition: The Role of Spatial, Technological and Relational Proximity," Working Paper CRENoS, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia, number 202610.
• Shaowen Luo & Kwok Ping Tsang & Zichao Yang, 2026, "Partial Identification of Spatial Production Networks," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2606.17079, Jun.
• Faia, Ester & Glaeser, Edward & Viarengo, Martina & Simonelli, Saverio, 2025, "Agglomeration, Segregation and Imperial Origins," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20926, Dec.
• Abhimanyu Gupta & Xi Qu & Jiajun Zhang, 2026, "Semi-nonparametric estimation of spatial dynamic panel data models with nonparametric spatial weights," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2606.24266, Jun.
• Becker, Ann-Kristin & Hornung, Erik, 2025, "Industrialization and the Return to Labor: Evidence from Prussia," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20810, Nov.
• Gorin, Clement & Combes, Pierre-Philippe & Duranton, Gilles & Gobillon, Laurent, 2025, "Measuring Land Use Changes by (Machine) Learning from Historical Maps," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20946, Dec.