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ERSA Conference participation: does location matter?
Author(s) -
Van Dijk Jouke,
Maier Gunther
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00102.x
Subject(s) - attendance , distance decay , distribution (mathematics) , test (biology) , regional science , psychology , political science , sociology , geography , economic geography , mathematics , law , mathematical analysis , paleontology , biology
. This article analyses participation in the annual European congresses of the Regional Science Association (ERSA) from 1998 through 2003. We formulate goals that the ERSA conferences should aim at and based on these aims we formulate hypotheses about conference participation. In the empirical part we test hypotheses with regard to the spatial distribution of the participants over countries, the distribution of the frequency of attendance among the participants, and the presence of distance decay in participation. All hypotheses are confirmed. We also pay attention to the relation between the frequency of attendance and distance. In the conclusions we derive implications for future conferences.