4-6 September 2024Torino, Italy 

OECD Spatial Productivity Lab special sessions at the XLV AISRe Annual Scientific Conference, 2024

SO.60: Regional productivity drivers: from analysis to policy

Organised by the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab

Productivity in the most productive region is about twice as high as in the least productive region on average across OECD countries. Moreover, these within country differences have been very persistent. Spatial productivity differentials exist because many sources of productivity growth are locally defined or are increasingly sensitive to regional and local conditions.

This session is dedicated to analysis that aims to understand the productivity drivers in regions and link such analysis to policy implications for regional and local governments.

The special session, organised by the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab, invites papers that deepen our understanding on the spatial drivers of productivity. Topics can include:

• Regional productivity reviews;
• Assessment of local-level public policies (e.g., Recovery and Resilience Facility programmes).
• Impact evaluation of regional or place-based policies;
• Innovative use of data and methods to analyse subnational economic development and productivity. 

SO.50: Existing and new regional inequalities in the twin transition

Jointly organised by the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab and Politecnico di Milano, Italy

The opportunities and challenges of the twin transition of digitalisation and greening can vary greatly between regions. For instance, accessibility to digital markets makes physical geography less of a constraint, and new industries and jobs will emerge to facilitate the transition to Net Zero economies. However, the digital transition may also pose risks for regions that already lag behind in the digitalisation of firms and society broadly. Moreover, the need to transform to a green economy may especially affect some regions intensive in the extraction or use of fossil energy, with risk of job loss for workers in such sectors.

At the same time, regional differences in economic development are already wide and persistent across OECD countries. Therefore, it is also important to understand better how existing regional inequalities between households, workers and firms across regions may be alleviated or aggravated by twin transition, and how the twin transition can be managed by local policy makers.

This session, jointly organized by POLIMI and the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab, seeks to delve into these regional economic differences and social inequality that link with the twin transition.

We invite contributions that analyse and discuss the diverse impacts of the twin transition on regions, with specific interest for quantitative contributions and implications for national and place-based policies.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

• Workers at risk of job loss from the twin transition
• Digitalisation of firms in lagging regions
• Emergence of Green industry clusters
• The geography of green start-ups and scalers
• Regional inequality in well-being and the twin transition
• Analysis of regional policies to support firms and workers in the twin transition

More Information

Call for papers

Submit your abstract here by 28 February 2024 and select session SO.60: Regional productivity drivers: from analysis to policy or session SO.50: Existing and new regional inequalities in the twin transition. 

Links

Official website

The OECD Spatial Productivity Lab

Contacts

Carlo.Menon@oecd.org

Wessel.Vermeulen@oecd.org

 ERSA 2024