Topics for theses in Regional and transport economics
I include here some references to interesting articles/papers in the field of regional and transport economics, which can serve as possible inspiration for thesis ideas:
- The effects of land price in the peri-urban fringe of Mexico City: Environmental amenities for informal land parcel purchasers. Urban Studies: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0042098020960968
- Learning Mobility Flows from Urban Features with Spatial Interaction Models and Neural Networks. Proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2020): https://doi.org/10.1109/SMARTCOMP50058.2020.00028
- Is the Well-Being of Neighboring Cities Important to Me? Analysis of the Spatial Effect of Social Capital and Urban Amenities in South Korea. Social Indicators Research: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02542-1
- Spatial effect of environmental regulation on green innovation efficiency: Evidence from prefectural-level cities in China. Journal of Cleaner Production: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125032
- Do spatial interactions fuel the climate-conflict vicious cycle? The case of the African continent. Journal of Spatial Econometrics: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43071-020-00007-8
- Investigating the spatio-temporal variations of the impact of urbanization on haze pollution using multiple indicators. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-020-01937-3
- Positive or negative externalities? Exploring the spatial spillover and industrial agglomeration threshold effects of environmental regulation on haze pollution in China. Environment, Development and Sustainability: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-01114-0
- Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in
San Francisco. Working paper: https://www.gwern.net/docs/economics/2020-pennington.pdf
- Understanding spatial spillover effects of airports on economic development: New evidence from China’s hub airports. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.11.013
- Empirical analysis of associations between health expenditure and forest environments: A case of Japan. Ecological Economics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106927
- The Spatiotemporal Evolution and Trend Prediction of Ecological Wellbeing Performance in China. Land: https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010012
- Identification of the geographical extent of an area benefiting from a transportation project: A generalized synthetic control. Journal of Transport and Land Use: https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2021.1784
- Assessing the impact of tourist flows on emergency department treatment speed for residents and tourists. The case of Sorrento. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2020.101004
- Institutional quality and its spatial spillover effects on energy efficiency. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2021.101023
- Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the impact of high-speed railway on urban economy: Empirical study of Chinese cities. Journal of Transport Geography: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.102972
- Spatial Network Structures of Urban Agglomeration Based on the Improved Gravity Model: A Case Study in China’s Two Urban Agglomerations. Complexity: https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6651444
- Evaluation and Optimization of Urban Land-Use Efficiency: A Case Study in Sichuan Province of China. Sustainability: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041771
- Climate change and climate migration: issues and questions around an in-transition Tunisian economy. Climatic Change: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03006-2
- Do spatial spillovers matter? Estimating the impact of tourism development on CO2 emissions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-12988-6
- Impacts of high-speed rail on urban smog pollution in China: A spatial difference-in-difference approach. Science of The Total Environment: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146153
- Direct Effect and Spillover Effect of ICT on Electricity Consumption in China: Evidence from a Spatial Panel Analysis. Mathematical Problems in Engineering: https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6688800
- Spatial-temporal characteristics of urban air pollution in 337 Chinese cities and their influencing factors. Environmental Science and Pollution Research: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-12825-w
- Spatiotemporal changes in efficiency and influencing factors of China’s industrial carbon emissions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13003-8
- Non-constant income elasticities of waste generation. Journal of Cleaner Production: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126611
- Water-energy nexus of Turkey’s municipalities: Evidence from spatial panel data analysis. Energy: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.120347
- An Evaluation of the Three Pillars of Sustainability in Cities with High Airbnb Presence: A Case Study of the City of Madrid. Sustainability: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063220
- Spatial and temporal analysis of shared bicycle use in Limassol, Cyprus. Journal of Transport Geography: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103049
- Do the mobility patterns for city taxicabs impact road safety? IISE Transactions: https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2021.1914879
- The role of R&D in the effectiveness of renewable energy determinants: A spatial econometric analysis. Energy Economics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105287
- Evolution of spatial–temporal characteristics and financial development as an influencing factor of green ecology. Environment, Development and Sustainability: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01469-y
- Spatial autocorrelation, influencing factors and temporal distribution of the construction and demolition waste disposal industry. Waste Management: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.04.025
- The spatial effects of city-level water-energy nexus: A case study of Hebei Province, China. Journal of Cleaner Production: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127497
- Do households prefer to move up or down the urban hierarchy during an economic crisis?. Journal of Geographical Systems: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-021-00353-7
- Impacts of regional conflicts on tourism in Africa and the Middle East: a spatial panel data approach. Current Issues in Tourism: https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2021.1931054
- Metros, agglomeration and displacement. Evidence from London. Regional Science and Urban Economics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2021.103681
- Green gentrification or gentrified greening: Metropolitan Melbourne. Land Use Policy: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105577
- Spatiotemporal effects of renewable energy technology innovation on industrial cleaner production: A geographically temporally weighted analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127783
- The effect of industrial relocations to central and Western China on urban construction land expansion. Journal of Land Use Science: https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2021.1936670
- Impact of urbanization on ecological efficiency in China: An empirical analysis based on provincial panel data. Ecological Indicators: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107827
- Impacts of COVID-19 on tourists' destination preferences: Evidence from China. Annals of Tourism Research: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103258
- Spatial price mimicking on Airbnb: Multi-host vs single-host. Tourism Management: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104365
- Spatial interaction between urbanization and ecosystem services in Chinese urban agglomerations. Land Use Policy: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105587
- The Impact of Multiple Dimensions of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: A Spatial and Threshold Analysis of Panel Data on China's Prefecture-Level Cities. Sustainable Cities and Society: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103113
- Identifying the spatial disparities and determinants of ecosystem service balance and their implications on land use optimization. Science of The Total Environment: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148472
- Simulating the urban spatial structure with spatial interaction: A case study of urban polycentricity under different scenarios. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101677
- People’s Avoidance of Neighboring Agricultural Urban Green Infrastructure: Evidence from a Choice Experiment. Sustainability: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126930
- Regional destination attributes that attract domestic tourists: the role of man-made venues for leisure and recreation. Heliyon: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07383
- Green innovation effect of emission trading policy on pilot areas and neighboring areas: An analysis based on the spatial econometric model. Energy Policy: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112431
- Effects of financial agglomeration on green total factor productivity in Chinese cities: Insights from an empirical spatial Durbin model. Energy Economics: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105449
- Externalities of extreme natural disasters on local tax capacity. Documentos de Trabajo sobre Economía Regional y Urbana: https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/bitstream/handle/20.500.12134/10042/DTSERU__299.pdf%3Fsequence%3D6%26isAllowed%3Dy&hl=en&sa=X&d=10973209786843062570&ei=nuL1YKzwG_2Ly9YPs4SHsAg&scisig=AAGBfm26ObaeWnLrcltnQm1nw8IZtxGH8A&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&html=&folt=kw
- Non-spatial and spatial econometric analysis of tourism demand in a panel of countries around the world. Spatial Economic Analysis: https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2021.1940256
- Agglomerating or dispersing? Spatial effects of high-speed trains on regional tourism economies. Tourism Management: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104392
- Has Korean growth become greener? Spatial econometric evidence for energy use and renewable energy. Annals of Operations Research: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04197-8
- How urban sprawl influences eco-environmental quality: Empirical research in China by using the Spatial Durbin model. Ecological Indicators: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108113
- Carbon emission efficiency and spatio-temporal dynamic evolution of the cities in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, China. Environment, Development and Sustainability: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01751-z
- Heterogeneity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve across Chinese cities: How to dance with ‘shackles’?. Ecological Indicators: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108128
- Transport investment, railway accessibility and their dynamic impacts on regional economic growth. Research in Transportation Business & Management: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2021.100702
- How to control China's energy consumption through technological progress: A spatial heterogeneous investigation. Energy: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.121965
- Change in land-use structure due to urbanisation in China. Journal of Cleaner Production: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128986
- Does panda diplomacy promote Chinese outbound tourism flows?. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management: https://doi-org.ezproxy.unibo.it/10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.08.019
- Tourism demand forecasting using complex network theory. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research: https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2024.2324536
- Heritage tourism and local prosperity: An empirical investigation of their controversial relationship. Tourism Economics: https://doi.org/10.1177/13548166241234099
