Territorial Data Analysis and Modelling Newsletter

This is a summary of policy contributions and publications related to the regional EU data and to the use of the RHOMOLO model in the first half of 2022.

A number of outputs are related to Cohesion policy, since the Eighth Cohesion Report was published by the European Commission's DG REGIO which included many RHOMOLO results.

Additional work includes a modelling analysis of the regulation of the European Services sector, the employment impact assessment of the youth-related measures of the RRF, and several studies on the relationship between the RRF and Smart Specialisation.

The TEDAM team will soon participate in two Regional Economics conferences sponsored by the JRC, and it is organising two sessions at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2022.

The JRC is sponsoring the following two conferences:

1. AISRE XLIII Annual Scientific Conference: Cities and Regions in Transition (Politecnico di Milano, 5-7 September 2022)
2. XLVII International Conference on Regional Science: Challenges, Policies and Governance of the Territories in the Post-Covid Era (University of Granada, 19-21 November 2022)

Moreover, the TEDAM team is organising the following two sessions at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2022, don't miss the opportunity to attend them (Registration opens to the public on August 31st):

• Territorial Economic Data Viewer (TEDv): a tool to support the policy cycle (11/10/2022, h11:00)
• Regional Economic Monitoring (REMO) of EU funds: evidence-based support to policy (13/10/2022, h09:30)

The members of the TEDAM team will present works carried out using EU regional data and the RHOMOLO model.

The latest Annual Single Market Report published by the European Commission's DG GROW includes RHOMOLO results on the macroeconomic impact of the regulation of the EU Services sector.

See the related Technical Report JRC128322 and Policy Insight JRC127035.

The RHOMOLO analysis on the territorial impact of the Covid-19 crisis is included in the first chapter of the Report - see the related Policy Insight JRC125536.

The macroeconomic impact of the 2014-2020 Cohesion policy is illustrated in the fourth chapter of the Report - see the related Technical Report JRC128208.

There is a reference to a RHOMOLO-IO analysis on decarbonisation in the fifth chapter of the Report - see the related Technical Report JRC127463.

The results of a RHOMOLO analysis dealing with the youth-related measures contained in the RRF are included in the latest ESDE Report published by the European Commission's DG EMPL.

See the related Policy Insight no. JRC129687.

The ERA industrial technology roadmap for low-carbon technologies in energy-intensive industries published by European Commission’s DG RTD includes a REMO’s ex-post evaluation of the funded projects by the ERDF in the programming period 2014-2020.

See the related Policy Insight no. JRC128452 and Policy Insight no. JRC127403.

• A special issue of Scienze Regionali - Italian Journal of Regional Science includes three RHOMOLO articles on the importance of the regional dimension on policy impact assessments - Read the full Special Issue
• Santos, Edwards, and Neto study the impact of Smart Specialisation on innovation subsidies and productivity in Portugal - Read the European Planning Studies article
• Barbero, Christensen, Conte, Lecca, Rodríguez-Pose, and Salotti study the influence of quality of government improvements on the impact of Cohesion policy - Read the Journal of Common Market Studies article
• Santos and Cincera analyse firms' financing constraints and innovation - Read the Small Business Economics article
• Barbero and Rodríguez-Crespo look into the interrelations between technological, institutional, and geographical peripheries - Read the The Annals of Regional Science article

• Crucitti, Lazarou, Monfort, and Salotti study the macroeconomic impact of the 2014-2020 Cohesion policy programmes in all the EU regions - Technical Report no. JRC128322
• Persyn, Barbero, Díaz-Lanchas, Lecca, Mandras, and Salotti concentrate on the transport infrastructures investments - Technical Report no. JRC128412
• Gianelle, Guzzo, Barbero, and Salotti study the economic impact of the governance of Smart Specialisation in the Italian regions - Technical Report no. JRC128607
• Crucitti, Lazarou, Monfort, and Salotti analyse several scenarios on the 2021-2027 Cohesion policy in Romania - Technical Report no. JRC129049

• Fernández-Zubieta presents the case of Spain - Technical Report no. JRC129828
• Tolias concentrates on Greece - Technical Report no. JRC129830
• Prota and Viesti study the case of Italy - Technical Report no. JRC130071

Santos, Barbero, Salotti, and Conte study the effect of digital investment on employment in the EU and in Portugal - Read the GEE Working Paper

The paper was one of the five best papers submitted to a call for papers co-organized by the GEE, Google and the Association for the Information Society Development (APDSI).