Globalization is affecting regional economies in a broad spectrum of aspects, from labor market conditions and development policies to climate change. To understand better how this works, we need both conceptual and methodological contributions. We need new schemes to organize our thinking, direct our attention, and frame thought experiments on the basis of which guidance may be offered. And we need methodological innovations that enable us to carry out studies and thought experiments at levels of spatial and temporal resolution and formal complexity adequate to capture and account for the phenomena that characterize globalization. The chapters of this volume, written by an international cast of eminent regional scientists, represent contributions of both types, in many cases introducing and demonstrating the use of new tools for analyzing and understanding enormous changes underway in regional economies around the world.

Timely conceptual refinements for regional analysis New tools for analyzing the enormous changes in regional economies due to globalization Graphical devices to schematize complex concepts and present Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Globalization and Regional Economic Modeling: Analytical and Methodological Challenges.- Globalization and Regional Economic Modeling: Analytical and Methodological Challenges.- Advances in the Analysis of the Effects of Globalization on Regional Economies.- Technology, Information and the Geography of Global and Regional Trade.- Transport, Globalization and the Changing Concept of the Region.- ICT, the New Economy and Growth: The Potential for Emerging Markets.- The Aging of the Labor Force and Globalization.- The Role of Intraindustry Trade in Interregional Trade in the Midwest of the US.- Globalization, Regional Economic Policy and Research.- Methodological AdvancesModels of Networks.- Globalization and Intermodal Transportation: Modeling Terminal Locations Using a Three-Spatial Scales Framework.- The Evolution of OECD ICT Inter-Cluster Networks 19702000: An Input-Output Study of Changes in the Interdependencies Between Nine OECD Economies.- The Co-Evolution and Emergence of Integrated International Financial Networks and Social Networks: Theory, Analysis, and Computations.- Methodological AdvancesGeneral Equilibrium Models.- Regional Adjustment to Globalization: A CGE Analytical Framework.- Modeling Small Area Economic Change in Conjunction with a Multiregional CGE Model.- Impact Assessment of Clean Development Mechanisms in a General Spatial Equilibrium Context.- An Environmental Socioeconomic Framework Model for Adapting to Climate Change in China.- Methodological AdvancesEconometric Models.- Effects of Trade on Emissions in an Enlarged European Union: Some Comparative Dynamics Analyses with an Empirically Based Endogenous Growth Model.- Modeling Globalization: A Spatial Econometric Analysis.- Risk and Growth: Theoretical Relationships and PreliminaryEstimates for South Africa.