The 9th RUSE International Workshop

The Institute of Urban Development and the School of Economics at Nanjing Audit University, together with Growth and Change, Chinese Economy, Journal of Regional Science, International Regional Science Review, Economic Geography, Annals of Regional Science, Spatial Economic Analysis, and Journal of Geographical System, are pleased to announce that we are organizing the 9th RUSE International Workshop at Nanjing Audit University (Pukou Campus) during June 19-20, 2020.

1.Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to have the following distinguis hed keynote speakers:

1Gabriel Ahlfeldt, London School of Economics, UK (Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics)

2Canfei He, Dean, College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China (Associate editor, World Regional Geography and Geographical Research)

3Dan Rickman, Oklahoma State University, USA (Editor, Growth and Change)

4Andres Rodriguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK (Editor, Economic Geography and Journal of Geographical System)

5Yang Yao, Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, China (Editor, China Economic Quarterly)

6Siqi Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (Associate Editor,Journal of Regional Science)

2.Paper Submission and Registration

Following the tradition of previous highly successful workshops to date, we aim to continue to attract high-quality research output, further increase the academic visibility of regional, urban, and spatial issues in the world and particularly in China, and reinforce the research network for top level China-focused scholars from across the globe. We particularly welcome submissions on the following themes:

Agglomeration and new economic geography

• Environment, energy, and sustainable development

• Firm and household location decisions

• Housing issues: supply, demand, prices, affordability, and policies

•  Land use and land-use policy

• Regional growth and development

• Transportation: its management and socio-economic impacts

• Urban governance and its optimization, including community governance

• Urban growth, dynamics, and transformation

• Urban network and spatial interdependencies

• Urban and regional policy evaluation

• Urbanization and migration

  For those interested in presenting a paper in the workshop, please submit in English a draft paper or an extended abstract (200-500 words, identifying the research question clearly and presenting basic results) through email to RUSE2020@outlook.com and cc tolitianshu@nau.edu.cn, mentioning “paper submission for RUSE2020” in the subject headline of the email. For the convenience of organization, please include your detailed contact information (name, affiliation, phone number, as well as email address) in your submission.

The submission deadline is March 1st, 2020. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by April 1st, 2020 and a complete paper in English is due on May 15th, 2020.

For non-student participants, there is a registration fee of 100 U.S. dollars or 700 RMB.  This registration fee is established to ensure attendance for the entire meeting and to cover the cost of registration and all meals. No registration fee will be charged on student presenters. Participants need to pay their own cost of accommodation and transportation. Details on the payment of registration fee and hotel information will be sent once your paper has been accepted for presentation.

Growth and Change (SSCI-indexed), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (SSCI-indexed), and the Chinese Economy each will have a special issue for this workshop. All papers presented at the workshop are welcomed for submissions to the special issues. Details of submission instructions will be provided after the workshop. All submissions will go through the normal anonymous review process.

Growth and Change (SSCI-indexed): Growth and Change, published by Wiley, is a broadly based forum for scholarly research on all aspects of urban and regional development and policy-making. Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal publishes both empirical and theoretical contributions from economics, geography, public finance, urban and regional planning, agricultural economics, public policy, and related fields. These include full-length research articles, perspectives (contemporary assessments and views on significant issues in urban and regional development), as well as critical book reviews. The theme of the special issue is “big data and urban and regional policy evaluation.” For the details of submission procedure, please refer to a separate call-for-paper.

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences (SEPS, SSCI-indexed): SEPS, published by Elsevier, strongly encourages contributions dealing with applications of quantitative models and techniques to important decision problems in the service sector. Of particular interest are accounts of such studies carried out in developing countries and economically emerging regions of the world. Review articles in important methodological and substantive areas are also of interest. The principal criterion used in evaluating a manuscript submitted to the journal is: uniqueness or innovation of the work in terms of the methodology being developed, and/or its application to a problem of particular importance in the public or service sector and/or the setting within which the effort is being made, e.g. an emerging region of the world. A call-for-paper for the special issue will be announced later.

The Chinese Economy: Published bimonthly by Taylor & Francis Group, the journal offers an objective and analytical account of the economic issues about China. It publishes original works written by scholars over the world. The refereed Journal provides readers with useful information on China’s economic development, for conducting future research, and for understanding important policy implications. Articles in this journal are indexed/listed JEL, RePEc, Econlit, ABI/INFORM, Bibliography of Asian Studies, and Bibliography of Social Sciences. For submissions, please contact Shunfeng Song at song@unr.edu.

In addition, editors or chief editorial board members from Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Geographical System, Economic Geography, International Regional Science Review, Annals of Regional Science, Spatial Economic Analysis, Journal of Social and Economic Geography, and Journal of Urban Affairswill attend the workshop. They welcome submissions that fit these journals.

As the only institute of higher education around the world that carries “AUDIT” in its name, Nanjing Audit University (NAU) was initially founded in 1983, right after the foundation of the National Audit Office of China. In response to urgent auditing needs after the Reform and Opening-up Policy, NAU has been developing rapidly despite its relatively short history. Its current student population is more than 16,000, and it has a faculty over 1,000. NAU is approximately ranked the 45th based on the average entrance score of the National College Entrance Exams, and is listed among top universities in Jiangsu Province based on graduate employment competitiveness, average salary, and satisfaction. NAU’s main campus is located in Pukou District of Nanjing and is often referred as “the most beautiful new campus” in China.

The Institute of Urban Development (IUD) is a newly founded research institute at NAU. Dr. Shunfeng Song, Dean of IUD, is a tenured full professor in economics from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Changjiang Chaired Professor of China's Ministry of Education. The institute has recruited about 15 young talented economists from abroad since 2017, and it will continue to recruit more scholars every year in the near future. IUD promotes all applied research, especially urban and regional economics, industrial economics, environmental and resource economics, public economics, and labor and health economics. Regularly, IUD supports and organizes various academic activities, including international conferences, research seminars, and academic workshops. Through high research quality and active academic activities, IUD aims to build up an internationally well-known research center in applied economics.