Empirical Finance and Regional Economic Development

Dear Colleagues,

The global landscape of regional economic development has undergone major shifts in the last decade, with the central role of finance. This has led to new opportunities but has posed challenges as well. The present Special Issue undertakes an empirical exploration of finance and regional economic development.

Academic researchers, portfolio managers, policymakers, and the business community are interested in empirically analyzing regional economic development and its nexus with finance. New regional organizations are also emerging and existing multilateral institutions/groups are witnessing structural changes due to the growing opportunities for investments and economic development of regional blocks. At the same time, the emerging integration of financial markets across borders has posed new challenges. Regional economic development has increased the spillover of shocks between macro-financial variables in regional economies. The advancement of emerging technologies and information flow has aggravated these effects.

It is, therefore, no surprise to find growing literature on empirical exploration of shock spillovers across economies and across markets. New research is also applying different econometric approaches, including time-series and machine-learning models, among others, to understand the implications of financial risk spillovers for regional economic development.

This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality applied economic research papers from academia, business, and other stakeholders on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Applying econometric frameworks to understand regional economic and financial integration at the international level;
2. Empirical approaches to model spillover of shocks across the markets;
3. Time-varying impacts of foreign economic policies on regional development and the role of economic and financial uncertainties;
4. Regional integration and implications on fiscal, monetary and trade policies;
5. The dynamic relationship between housing markets and the macroeconomy;
6. Using financial market information for understanding macroeconomic dynamics and policy design.

Dr. Hardik A. Marfatia
Guest Editor

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• regional economic development
• market integration
• spillover of shocks