Program
38th Annual
Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association
Ojai Valley Inn and Spa,
Ojai, California ~ February 21-24, 1999
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Sunday, February 21
9:00 AM 1:30 PM, WRSA Turnbull Cup Golf
Tournament
Organizer: Robert FORMAINI, Dallas Federal
Reserve Bank, USA
1:00 3:30 PM, WRSA Tennis Tournament
Organizer: Andrei ROGERS, Univ. Colorado,
Boulder, USA
2:00 6:00 PM, Registration
(Topa Foyer)
4:00 5:15 PM, Opening Plenary Session
(Topa Center)
5:15 6:45 PM, Welcoming Reception for
All Conference Participants
(Shangri La Pavilion)
Sunday, 4:00 5:15 PM
Opening Plenary Session
(Topa Center)
Chair: Anthony H. PASCAL, RAND Corp., Santa
Monica, CA
Presentations
"Southern Californias Riviera: A Landscape
of Affluence"
David HORNBECK, Jr., California State Univ.,
Northridge, USA
"Ojai: A Surviving Slice of Old Southern
California"
John BROESAMLE, California State Univ., Northridge,
USA
Reception Follows Immediately
Monday, February 22, Morning
8:00 AM, Coffee Available (Topa Center)
8:00 AM and throughout the day, Registration
(Topa Foyer)
8:15 or 9:00 AM 12:30 PM
Six Concurrent Paper Sessions: 1A, 1B,
1C, 1D, 1E, 1F
(10:30 11:00 AM, Coffee Break)
Monday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 1A
Regional Industrial Analysis
Chair: Keith R. PHILLIPS, Dallas
Federal Reserve Bank, USA
9:00 9:45
Market Rules and Spatial Outcomes:
Insights from the Corporate Restructuring of U.S. Food Retailing
Neil WRIGLEY, Univ. Southampton, England
Discussant: Sanjoy CHAKRAVORTY,
Temple Univ., USA
9:45 10:30
This Little Piggy Went to Market:
Will the New Pork Industry Call the Heartland Home?
Mark DRABENSTOTT, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, USA
Discussant: Thomas R. HARRIS, Univ.
Nevada, Reno, USA
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
Information Linkages in Local Economic
Development: Private and Social Returns in the Colorado Micromalting Project
Eric SCORSONE and Stephan WEILER, Colorado State Univ., USA
Discussant: Johannes TRAXLER, Univ.
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
11:45 12:30
Where Are the New U.S. Information-Technology
Jobs?
R. D. NORTON, Bryant College, Smithfield, RI, USA
Discussant: Brian P. HOLLY, Portland
State Univ., USA
Monday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 1B
Western States Economic
Outlook
(Cosponsored by AUBER)
Chair: Timothy HOGAN, Arizona
State Univ., USA
Description: Overviews and updates
on economic/demographic trends and forecasts for western U.S. states. Discussion
of factors underlying growth and comparison of sectoral trends. All conference
participants welcome!
Presenters
Arizona
Lee MCPHETERS, Arizona State Univ., USA
California
Esmael ADIBI, Chapman Univ., Orange, CA, USA
Colorado
Richard WOBBEKIND, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA
Northern Mountain States
Paul POLZIN, Univ. Montana, USA
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
Nevada
R. Keith SCHWER, Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
New Mexico
Brian MCDONALD, Univ. New Mexico, USA
Utah
Thayne ROBSON, Univ. Utah, USA
Washington
Pete PARCELLS, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA
Monday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 1C
Policy and Perspectives
Chair: Robert FORMAINI, Dallas
Federal Reserve Bank, USA
9:00 9:45
Environmental Policy and Location
Behavior of Firms: A Synopsis of the Micro and Regional Economic Literature
Tim JEPPESEN, Odense Univ., Denmark, and Henk FOLMER, Tilburg Univ. and
Wageningen Agricultural Univ., The Netherlands
Discussant: A. MOLLARD, Univ. Pierre
Mendès France, Grenoble, France
9:45 10:30
Science Policy for a Small Nation:
Survey and Analysis of New Zealand
Jack W. SOMMER, Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Discussant: Robert J. STIMSON,
Univ. Queensland, Australia
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
An Analysis of Efficiency among
Fields of Science in Major Research Universities of the United States
Roger R. STOUGH, Mustafa DINC, Serdar YILMAZ, and Jean H. P. PAELINCK,
George Mason Univ., USA
Discussant: Jon R. MILLER, Univ.
Idaho, USA
11:45 12:30
Web-Based Learning Materials in
Regional Science
Scott LOVERIDGE, West Virginia Univ., USA
Discussant: Jack W. SOMMER, Univ.
North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Monday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 1D
Transportation I: Urban
Policy and Planning Analysis
Chair: Y. H. FAN, Taiwan National
Univ.
9:00 9:45
Private Toll Roads: An Economic
Analysis
Simon HAKIM and Erwin A. BLACKSTONE, Temple Univ., USA
Discussant: Koji SATO, Kanagawa
Univ., Japan
9:45 10:30
The Trouble with Minimum Parking
Requirements
Donald C. SHOUP, Univ. California, Los Angeles, USA
Discussant: Spenser W. HAVLICK,
Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
Analysis of Episodic Emission Controls
for the Transportation Sector in the Chicago Region
Tschango John KIM, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, and Gary DORRIS,
Hagler Bailly Services, Inc., Boulder, CO, USA Discussant:
Robert B. NOLAND, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
11:45 12:30
Public Transport Access Efficiency
and Coverage
Alan T. MURRAY, Univ. Queensland, Australia
Discussant: David LEVINSON, Univ.
California, Berkeley, USA
Monday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Session 1E
Migration and Economic Crisis
Chair: Dawn THILMANY, Colorado
State Univ., USA
9:00 10:30
Out-migration, Depopulation, and
Regional Economic Distress I: Theory and Measurement
Stuart H. SWEENEY, Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA, and Edward J.
FESER, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Out-migration, Depopulation, and
Regional Economic Distress II: Spatial and Temporal Sensitivity Analysis
Stuart H. SWEENEY, Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA, and Edward J.
FESER, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Discussant: Suzanne Davies WITHERS,
Univ. Washington, USA
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
Mobile Unemployment during Labor
Market Crisis: The Case of Sweden
Mats JOHANSSON, Swedish Inst. for Regional Research, Östersund, Sweden
and Lars O. PERSSON, Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, Stockholm,
Sweden
Discussant: Don MAR, San Francisco
State Univ., USA
11:45 12:30
Finnish Economic Depression: Unemployment,
Regional Migration and Job Search
Olli KULTALAHTI, Tampere Univ., Finland, and Jack W. OSMAN, San Francisco
State Univ., USA
Discussant: Rachel MARTIN, Univ.
Arizona, USA
Monday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 1F
Underlying Factors in Regional
Development around the World
Chair: Claude LACOUR, Univ.
Montesquieu, Bordeaux IV, France
9:00 9:45
An Update on Singapores Current
Economic and Other Conditions and the Retailing Sector
Brenda J. MOSCOVE and Robert G. FLETCHER, California State Univ., Bakersfield,
USA
Discussant: Juanita C. LIU, Univ.
Hawaii, Manoa, USA
9:45 10:30
Governing Inter-provincial Conflicts:
Planning for the Extended Kwangyang Bay Region in Southern Korea
Soo-Young PARK, Woo-Bae LEE, and Dong-Ho SHIN, Hannam Univ., Taejon, Korea
Discussant: Jean-Marie HURIOT,
Univ. Burgundy, France
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
The Role of Universities in Regional
Development: Endogenous Human Capital and Growth in a Two-Region Model
Charlie KARLSSON, Jönköping Univ., Sweden, and Wei-Bin ZHANG,
Inst. for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Discussant: John M. QUIGLEY, Univ.
California, Berkely, USA
11:45 12:30
On the Determinant of Regional
Income Distribution
Ermelinda LOPES, Univ. Minho, Braga, Portugal
Discussant: David E. CLARK, Marquette
Univ., USA
Monday, February 22, Afternoon
12:30 2:00 PM, Lunch (on your own)
1:30 PM and throughout the afternoon,
Registration (Topa Foyer)
2:00 5:30 PM
Five Concurrent Paper Sessions: 2A, 2B,
2C, 2D, 2E
(3:30 4:00 PM, Coffee Break)
2:00 3:30 PM, Panel Session 2F: Critiques
of Regional Planning
4:00 5:30 PM, Panel Session 2G: Issues
Surrounding Agricultural Preservation and Urban Development
4:00 5:30 PM, WRSA Board Meeting (By
Invitation Only)
5:45 7:15 PM, Presidents Reception
(For All Participants)
Monday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 2A
Transportation II: Mobility
and Commuting
Chair: Bijan VASIGH, Embry-Riddle
Univ., USA
2:00 2:45
Employing Welfare Recipients: Spatial
and Transport Implications
Katherine M. OREGAN, Yale Univ., USA, and John M. QUIGLEY, Univ. California,
Berkeley, USA
Discussant: C. Daniel VENCILL,
San Francisco State Univ., USA
2:45 3:30
Sustainable Mobility in Europe:
Problems in Defining and Implementing an Operational Measure
Roger VICKERMAN, Univ. Kent, England
Discussant: Odile HEDDEBAUT, INRETS
TRACES, Villeneuve dAscq, France
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Policies Promoting Telework
Koji SATO, Kanagawa Univ., Japan
Discussant: Donald C. SHOUP, Univ.
California, Los Angeles, USA
4:45 5:30
A Fatal Oversight in Regional Planning:
The Child as Pedestrian
Spenser W. HAVLICK, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA
Discussant: Dawn THILMANY, Colorado
State Univ., USA
Monday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 2B
Population Change and Socioeconomics
Chair: Olli KULTALAHTI, Tampere
Univ., Finland
2:00 2:45
Are Suburban Firms More Likely
to Discriminate against African-Americans?
Steven RAPHAEL, Univ. California, San Diego, USA, Michael A. STOLL, Univ.
California, Los Angeles, USA, and Harry J.
HOLZER, Michigan State Univ., USA
Discussant: Brigitte S. WALDORF,
Univ. Arizona, USA
2:45 3:30
Social and Economic Change in Queensland
Local Government Areas over the Decade 19861996
Robert J. STIMSON and Rex DAVIS, Univ. Queensland, Australia
Discussant: Mats JOHANSSON, Swedish
Inst. for Regional Research, Östersund, Sweden
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
In-migrants to North Dakota: A
Socioeconomic Profile
F. Larry LEISTRITZ and Randall S. SELL, North Dakota State Univ., USA
Discussant: Edward J. FESER, Univ.
North Carolina, USA
4:45 5:30
Census from Heaven: An Estimate
of the Global Human Population Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery and Regional
Parameters
Paul SUTTON, Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA
Discussant: Seong Woo LEE, Seoul
National Univ., Korea
Monday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 2C
Economic Structure and Change
Chair: Brian P. HOLLY, Portland
State Univ., USA
2:00 2:45
Regional Requirements for Endogenous
Development
Leila KÉBIR and Denis MAILLAT, Univ. Neuchâtel, Switzerland,
and Antoine S. BAILLY, Univ. Genève, Switzerland
Discussant: Scott LOVERIDGE, West
Virginia Univ., USA
2:45 3:30
Credit Access in Rural Markets:
The Role of Financial Innovation and Structural Transition in Rural Utah
Economies
Christopher FAWSON, Utah State Univ., USA, and José BLANCO, Saint
Marys College of California, USA
Discussant: Thomas H. KLIER, Chicago
Federal Reserve Bank, USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
How Does Structural Reform Affect
Regional Development?
Sanjoy CHAKRAVORTY, Temple Univ., USA
Discussant: Eric SCORSONE, Colorado
State Univ., USA
4:45 5:30
From Global to Local: Regional
Responses to a Changing World Economy
Nicole MELLOW, Univ. Texas, Austin, USA
Discussant: Richard WOBBEKIND,
Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA
Monday, 2:00 4:45 PM
Paper Session 2D
Urban Planning and Urban
Spatial Structure
Chair: Dong-Ho SHIN, Hannam
Univ., Taejon, Korea
2:00 2:45
The Effects of the Greenbelt on
Urban Spatial Structure: The Case of the Seoul Metropolitan Area
Myung-Jin JUN, Chung-Ang Univ., Korea
Discussant: Koichi MERA, Univ.
Southern California, USA
2:45 3:30
Diversity, Specialization, and
Urban Stability: Some Results from a Regional Perspective (Aquitaine)
Claude LACOUR, Univ. Montesquieu, Bordeaux IV, France
Discussant: Henk VAN HOUTUM, Univ.
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
How Information Shapes Cities:
Theory and Facts
Rachel GUILLAN and Jean-Marie HURIOT, Univ. Burgundy, France
Discussant: Johannes TRAXLER, Univ.
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Monday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 2E
Public Policy
Chair: Anthony H. PASCAL, RAND
Corp., Santa Monica, CA
2:00 2:45
Regional Attributes of the Inability
to Get Health Care: The Case of Nevada
Martin BOYETT, Rennae DANESHVARY, Bruce PENCEK, and R. Keith SCHWER, Univ.
Nevada, Las Vegas
Discussant: Lee MCPHETERS, Arizona
State Univ., USA
2:45 3:30
Privatization of Penitentiaries:
Economic Benefit or Public Peril?
R. Pete PARCELLS and Ben LEITCH, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA
Discussant: Simon HAKIM, Temple
Univ., USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
The Housing Market and the 1986
Tax Reform Act
Andrew NARWOLD, Univ. San Diego, USA
Discussant: Charles L. LEVEN, Washington
Univ., St. Louis, USA
4:45 5:30
Monetary Politics: A Sectional
Analysis of Coalitions and Conflicts
Jeffrey W. LADEWIG, Univ. Texas, Austin, USA
Discussant: Susan HINE, Colorado
State Univ., USA
Monday, 2:00 3:30 PM
Panel Session 2F
Critiques of Regional Planning
Convenor: Robert FORMAINI,
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, USA
Presenters
Robert FORMAINI, Dallas Federal
Reserve Bank, USA
Sam STALEY, Reason Public Policy
Inst., Los Angeles, USA
Commentator
Jack W. SOMMER, Univ. North
Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Monday, 4:00 5:30 PM
Panel Session 2G
Issues Surrounding Agricultural
Preservation and Urban Development
Convenor: Robert G. FLETCHER,
California State Univ., Bakersfield, USA
Panelists
Frank MITTELBACH, Univ. California,
Los Angeles, USA
Dennis WAMBEM, Consultant,
Riverside County, CA, USA
Alvin SOKOLOW, Univ. California,
Davis, USA
Albert G. MEDVITZ, Farmer,
Rio Vista, CA, USA
Description
Farm and open land conversion to urban
use remains a controversial issue in California and elsewhere in the United
States. This panel discussion will examine arguments surrounding
this issue from both sides of the controversy.
Monday, 5:45 7:15 PM
President's Reception
(For all Participants)
Tuesday, February 23, Morning
8:00 AM, Coffee Available
8:00 AM and throughout the day, Registration
(Topa Foyer)
8:30 AM 12:00 PM
Six Concurrent Paper Sessions: 3A, 3B,
3C, 3D, 3E, 3F
(10:00 10:30 AM, Coffee Break)
Tuesday, 8:30 AM 12:00
PM
Paper Session 3A
Remote Regions / Northern
Development I: Institutional Change and Northern Development
Chair: Lee HUSKEY, Univ. Alaska,
Anchorage, USA
8:30 9:15
Institutional Response to Uncertainty:
The Regional Effects of Global Change
Matt BERMAN, University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Discussant: James ALLAWAY, Western
Washington Univ., USA
9:15 10:00
Fishing on Firm Ground: The Evidence
that the Tsimshian Have a Constitutionally Protected Right to Sell Salmon
Margaret ANDERSON, Univ. Northern British Columbia, Canada
Discussant: Terrence COLE, Univ.
Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
10:00 10:30,
Coffee Break
10:30 11:15
Northern State versus Multinational
Corporation: The Regulation of Oil and Gas Development in Alaska
Jerry MCBEATH, Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Discussant: Lee HUSKEY, Univ. Alaska,
Anchorage, USA
11:15 12:00
The Impact of Local Government
on the Development of the Russian North: Problems and Prospects
Greg PROTASEL, Univ. Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Discussant: Gigi BERARDI, Western
Washington Univ., USA
Tuesday, 8:30 AM 12:00
PM
Paper Session 3B
Economic Impact Analysis
Chair: Brenda J. MOSCOVE, California
State Univ., Bakersfield, USA
8:30 9:15
The Economic Impact of Silver State
Industries on the State of Nevada
George W. BORDEN, Robert R. FLETCHER, and Thomas R. HARRIS, Univ. Nevada,
Reno, USA
Discussant: Thayne ROBSON, Univ.
Utah, USA
9:15 10:00
The Economic Impact of Hawaii
Museums on the Local Economy
Juanita C. LIU, Univ. Hawaii, Manoa, USA
Discussant: Robert G. FLETCHER,
California State Univ., Bakersfield, USA
10:00 10:30,
Coffee Break
10:30 11:15
The Impact of Economic Development
Programs Supported by Targeted Local Sales Taxes: Evidence from Texas
Chris KANE, Terry CLOWER, and Bernard WEINSTEIN, Univ. North Texas, USA
Discussant: R. D. NORTON, Bryant
College, Smithfield, RI, USA
11:15 12:00
Trends in the Economic Impact of
the Department of Energy on the State of New Mexico Over the Last Ten Years
Robert R. LANSFORD and Matthew R. FALKENSTEIN, New Mexico State Univ.,
USA, and Larry D. ADCOCK, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Discussant: F. Larry LEISTRITZ,
North Dakota State Univ., USA
Tuesday, 9:15 AM 12:00
PM
Paper Session 3C
Regional Modeling, I
Chair: Charles L. LEVEN, Washington
Univ., St. Louis, USA
9:15 10:00
Input-Output Modeling for Economic
Purposes and Ecological Usages
Harry BOETTCHER and Axel SCHAFFER, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
Discussant: Geoffrey J. D. HEWINGS,
Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
10:00 10:30,
Coffee Break
10:30 11:15
Large Sample Analysis of the Two-Stage
Data Envelopment Analysis Decomposition Technique
James NOLAN, Univ. Saskatchewan, Canada, Pamela RITCHIE and John ROWCROFT,
Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada
Discussant: Heonsoo PARK, Anyang
Univ., Korea
11:15 12:00
A Procedure to Estimate the Contemporaneous
Quarterly Regional GNP
Bernardí CABRER and Jose Manuel PAVIÁ, Univ. Valencia, Spain
Discussant: Michael L. LAHR, Rutgers
Univ., USA
Tuesday, 8:30 AM 12:00
PM
Paper Session 3D
Labor Markets, Migration,
and Employment Change
Chair: Andrei ROGERS, Univ.
Colorado, Boulder, USA
8:30 9:15
Post-Migratory Employment Prospects:
Evidence from Finland
Hannu TERVO, Univ. Jyväskylä, Finland
Discussant: Paul E. POLZIN, Univ.
Montana, USA
9:15 10:00
Changing Jobs and Changing Houses:
Mobility Outcomes of Employment Transitions
William A. V. CLARK, Univ. California, Los Angeles, USA, and Suzanne Davies
WITHERS, Univ. Washington, USA
Discussant: B. Martin R. VAN DER
VELDE, Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10:00 10:30,
Coffee Break
10:30 11:15
Job Access and Urban Form: The
Case of Unemployment in the Bordeaux and Chicago Metropolitan Areas
Eamon C. BOYLE, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA, and Sylvette PUISSANT,
Univ. Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France
Discussant: Peter DE GIESEL, Univ.
Maastricht, The Netherlands
11:15 12:00
Are Workers Wages Driven by National
or Local Factors?
Dwight W. ADAMSON, South Dakota State Univ., USA, David E. CLARK, Marquette
Univ., USA, and Mark D. PARTRIDGE, St. Cloud State Univ., USA
Discussant: Henk FOLMER, Tilburg
Univ. and Wageningen Agricultural Univ., The Netherlands
Tuesday, 8:30 AM 12:00
PM
Paper Session 3E
National Economies in Transition,
I
Chair: Lawrence SOMMERS, Michigan
State Univ., USA
8:30 9:15
Collapse or a New Dynamism? Russia
Facing the 21st Century
Hans WESTLUND, Swedish Inst. for Regional Research, Östersund, Sweden
Discussant: Daniel BERKOWITZ, Univ.
Pittsburgh, USA
9:15 10:00
Socio-economic and Political Consequences
of Privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe
Jolanta Dziembowska KOWALSKA and Jan S. KOWALSKI, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
Discussant: Jack OSMAN, San Francisco
State Univ., USA
10:00 10:30,
Coffee Break
10:30 11:15
Targeting Industries for Regional
Development in Israel and in Germany: A Comparative Study
Daniel SHEFER and Amnon FRENKEL, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Knut KOSCHATZKY
and Günter H. WALTER, Fraunhofer Inst. for Systems and Innovation
Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
Discussant: Darla K. ANDERSON,
Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
11:15 12:00
Economic Reform and Chinas Coal
Industry
Mark G. HENDERSON, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
Discussant: Theodore LANE, Thomas/Lane
& Associates, Seattle, WA, USA
Tuesday, 8:30 AM 12:00
PM
Paper Session 3F
Transportation III: Methodology
and Theory
Chair: Roger VICKERMAN, Univ.
Kent, England
8:30 9:15
Application of Space-Time Prisms
for the Measurement of Accessibility
Ming S. LEE and Michael G. MCNALLY, Univ. California, Irvine, USA
Discussant: David A. PLANE, Univ.
Arizona, USA
9:15 10:00
Relationships between Highway Capacity
and Induced Vehicle Travel
Robert B. NOLAND, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC,
USA
Discussant: Marlon G. BOARNET,
Univ. California, Irvine, USA
10:00 10:30,
Coffee Break
10:30 11:15
A Utility-Theory-Consistent System-of-Demand
Equations Approach to Household Travel Choice
Kara M. KOCKELMAN, Univ. Texas, Austin, USA
Discussant: Tschango John KIM,
Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
11:15 12:00
Tolling at a Frontier: A Game Theoretic
Analysis
David LEVINSON, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
Discussant: Jean H. P. PAELINCK,
Erasmus Univ., The Netherlands
Tuesday, February 23, Afternoon
12:15 1:45 PM, WRSA Annual Banquet Luncheon
(For All Participants)
1:45 PM and throughout the afternoon,
Registration continues (Topa Foyer)
2:00 5:30 PM
Five Concurrent Paper Sessions: 4A, 4B,
4C, 4D, 4E
(3:30 4:00 PM, Coffee Break)
2:00 5:00 PM, Session 4F: NE-162/WRSA
Workshop
8:00 9:30 PM, NE-162 Business Meeting
Tuesday, 12:15 1:45 PM
WRSA Annual Banquet Luncheon
(Shangri La Pavilion)
Chair: Lay James GIBSON, WRSA President (199899)
Presentation Ceremonies:
The Thirteenth Annual Charles M. Tiebout
Prize in Regional Science
Presented by: Jon R. MILLER, Chair, 1998-99
Reading Committee
The Fourth Annual Springer-Verlag Prize
Presented by: T. John KIM, Coeditor, The
Annals of Regional Science
Presidential Address:
"WRSA: A Spatial Association"
Arthur GETIS, WRSA President (19992000)
Discussant: T. John KIM, Univ.
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tuesday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 4A
National Economies in Transition,
II
Chair: Sylvette PUISSANT, Univ.
Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France
2:00 2:45
European Monetary Union: Implications
for the United States
John OLIENYK and Susan HINE, Colorado State Univ., USA
Discussant: Ricardo GAZEL, Kansas
City Federal Reserve Bank, USA
2:45 3:30
The Historiography of Transition:
Two Perspectives on the Bulgarian Village during the Transition
Bob BEGG, Indiana Univ. Pennsylvania, USA, and Mieke MEURS, American Univ.,
Washington, DC, USA
Discussant: Mark G. HENDERSON,
Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Russias Internal Border
Daniel BERKOWITZ and David N. DE JONG, Univ. Pittsburgh, USA
Discussant: Jolanta Dziembowska
KOWALSKA, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
4:45 5:30
Peasant Farm Efficiency in Poland:
A Spatial Econometric Analysis
Darla K. ANDERSON, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Discussant: Hans WESTLUND, Swedish
Inst. for Regional Research, Östersund, Sweden
Tuesday, 2:00 4:45 PM
Paper Session 4B
Transportation IV: Policy
Analysis
Chair: James NOLAN, Univ. Saskatchewan,
Canada
2:00 2:45
The Cross-Channel Support Strategy
in Kent and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region: Between Specific Institutional
Contexts and Timing Differences
Odile HEDDEBAUT, INRETS TRACES, Villeneuve dAscq, France
Discussant: Kara M. KOCKELMAN,
Univ. Texas, Austin, USA
2:45 3:30
Road Infrastructure, Economic Productivity,
and the Need for Highway Finance Reform
Marlon G. BOARNET, Univ. California, Irvine, USA
Discussant: Alan T. MURRAY, Univ.
Queensland, Australia
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
An Empirical Analysis of Airline
Safety: A Case of Regional Airlines
Bijan VASIGH, Embry-Riddle Univ., USA, and Mehdi HARIRIAN, Bloomsburg Univ.
of Pennsylvania, USA
Discussant: Ming S. LEE, Univ.
California, Irvine, USA
Tuesday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 4C
Immigration, Immigrants,
and Regional Labor Markets
Chair: Brigitte S. WALDORF,
Univ. Arizona, USA
2:00 2:45
The Wage Curve and Local Labour
Markets in New Zealand
Philip S. MORRISON and Jacques POOT, Victoria Univ., Wellington, New Zealand
Discussant: Keith R. PHILLIPS,
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, USA
2:45 3:30
A Preliminary Analysis of the Regional
Foreign-Born and Native-Born Population Geographies in the United States
during the 20th Century
Andrei ROGERS and James RAYMER, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA
Discussant: Eamon C. BOYLE, Indiana
Univ. Pennsylvania, USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Quality Based Investigation of
Immigrants Housing Consumption, 19801990
SeongWoo LEE, Seoul National Univ., Korea
Discussant: Steven RAPHAEL, Univ.
California, San Diego
4:45 5:30
Regional Differences in Self-Employment
among Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans
Don MAR, San Francisco State Univ., USA
Discussant: Sandra HOLLAND, Univ.
Arizona, USA
Tuesday,
2:00 4:45 PM
Paper Session 4D
Regional Modeling, II
Chair: Reginald GOLLEDGE, Univ.
California, Santa Barbara, USA
2:00 2:45
When Quality Meets Territorialism:
The Rent Theory Revisted in the Context of New Forms of Territorial Development
A. MOLLARD and B. PECQUEUR, Univ. Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble,
France
Discussant: Gordon F. MULLIGAN,
Univ. Arizona, USA
2:45 3:30
Fuzzy ARTMAP Classification of
World System Regions
Sucharita GOPAL and Raymond DEZZANI, Boston Univ., USA
Discussant: Arthur GETIS, San Diego
State Univ., USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Structural Change and Regional
Divergence: Simulations with a Multi-Period Two-Region CGE Model
James GIESECKE, Univ. Tasmania, Australia
Discussant: Axel SCHAFFER, Univ.
Karlsruhe, Germany
Tuesday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 4E
Remote Regions / Northern
Development II: Government and the Villages
Chair: Michael PRETES, Stanford
Univ., USA
2:00 2:45
Isran and Minqaq: The Economic
Potential of Iglu-Industry Arts and Crafts in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
of Alaska
Molly LEE, Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Discussant: Chris SOUTHCOTT, Lakehead
Univ., Canada
2:45 3:30
Community Function and Disfunction
in Six Western Alaska Communities: Observations on Water and Sanitation
Operations and Management
Sharman HALEY, Univ. Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Discussant: Carolyn REDL, Keyano
College, Ft. McMurray, Canada
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Settlement, Sanitation, and Schools:
Using Participatory Research Methods in Alaska Villages
Gigi BERARDI, Western Washington Univ., USA
Discussant: Greg PROTASEL, Univ.
Alaska, Anchorage, USA
4:45 5:30
Frozen Fantasies: Alaskan Movies
in the 1920s
Terrence COLE, Univ. Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Discussant: Steve COLT, Univ. Alaska,
Anchorage, USA
Tuesday, 2:00 5:00 PM
Session 4F
NE-162 / WRSA Workshop on
Theory and Practice of Community Policy Analysis
Convenor: David W. HOLLAND,
Washington State Univ., USA
Description
One in a series of workshops organized
by NE-162 to develop community policy tools by a network of regional and
community scientists. The workshop will continue the process of defining
and redefining decision support tools and outreach programs for communities
in urban and rural areas. All conference participants are welcome to participate.
Wednesday, February 24,
Morning
8:00 AM, Coffee Available
8:00 AM and throughout the morning, Registration
(Topa Foyer)
8:15 10:30 AM, Panel Session 5A: New
Directions in Regional Science
8:15 or 9:00 AM 12:30 PM
Four Concurrent Paper Sessions: 5B, 5C,
5D, 5E
(10:30 11:00 AM, Coffee Break)
Wednesday, 8:15 10:30
AM
Panel Session 5A
New Directions in Regional
Science
Convenors: Antoine BAILLY,
Univ. Genève, Switzerland, and Lay J. GIBSON, Univ. Arizona, USA
Panelists:
Martin CLARKE, GMAP Ltd., Leeds,
England
Geoffrey J. D. HEWINGS, Univ.
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Denis MAILLAT, Univ. Neuchâtel,
Switzerland
David A. PLANE, Univ. Arizona,
USA
Bernard WEINSTEIN, Univ. North
Texas, USA
Wednesday, 8:15 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 5B
NE-162/WRSA Joint Session:
Analysis of Rural Public Policy
Chair: Bruce WEBER, Oregon
State Univ., USA
8:15 9:00
Do Commuters Free-Ride? A Theoretical
and Empirical Analysis of the Net Fiscal Effects of In-commuters
Martin SHIELDS, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Discussant: Thomas R. HARRIS, Univ.
Nevada, Reno, USA
9:00 9:45
Local Privatization Trends: Survey
Results from Municipalities in Illinois and Wisconsin
Steven DELLER, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Discussant: Stephen C. COOKE, Univ.
Idaho, USA
9:45 10:30
Interregional Spillovers under
The Contract on America: A Fiscal SAM Analysis
Maureen KILKENNY, Iowa State Univ., USA
Discussant: Garth TAYLOR, Univ.
Idaho, USA
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
Amenities and Rural Economic Development
and Growth
Steven DELLER, Tsung-Hsiu TSAI, and David MARCOUILLER, Univ. Wisconsin,
Madison, USA, and Donald ENGLISH, U.S. Forest Service, Southern Research
Station, Athens, GA
Discussant: David HUGHES, Louisiana
State Univ., USA
11:45 12:30
The Benefits of Beach Management
Policy on the Georgia Coast
Craig LANDRY, Warren KRIESEL, and Andrew KEELER, Univ. Georgia, USA
Discussant: David BARKLEY, Clemson
Univ., USA
Wednesday, 8:15 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 5C
Regional Modeling, III
Chair: Bernardí CABRER,
Univ. Valencia, Spain
8:15 9:00
The Fuzzy Logic of Accessibility
Eric J. HEIKKILA, Univ. Southern California, USA
Discussant: Stuart SWEENEY, Univ.
California, Santa Barbara, USA
9:00 9:45
On the Accuracy of Exponential
Smoothing Methods for Updating Untimely Data: A Study of Northwest U.S.
Regions
Jon R. MILLER, Univ. Idaho, USA, and Julia M. DICKSON, Andersen Consulting,
Seattle, WA, USA
Discussant: Neil WRIGLEY, Univ.
Southampton, England
9:45 10:30
Expenditure Based Inter-area Cost-of-Living
Indexes
Alexander VOICU and Michael L. LAHR, Rutgers Univ., USA
Discussant: Mark DRABENSTOTT, Kansas
City Federal Reserve Bank, USA
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
A GIS Based Model to Evaluate Policy
Impact and Voter Behavior
Rex DAVIS and Robert J. STIMSON, Univ. Queensland, Australia
Discussant: Serge REY, San Diego
State Univ., USA
11:45 12:30
Exports at the Subnational Level:
How Reliable Are the Data?
Ricardo GAZEL, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, USA, and Ron CRONOVICH,
Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Discussant: Luis-Eduardo VILA,
Univ. Valencia, Spain
Wednesday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 5D
Remote Regions / Northern
Development III: Travel and Tourism in the North
Chair: Matt BERMAN, Univ. Alaska,
Anchorage, USA
9:00 9:45
Regional Planning for Compatible
Development: The Gulf of Alaska North Coast as an Example of Opportunities
and Obstacles
James ALLAWAY, Western Washington Univ., USA
Discussant: Jerry MCBEATH, Univ.
Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
9:45 10:30
Women Going North
Carolyn REDL, Keyano College, Ft. McMurray, Canada
Discussant: Molly LEE, Univ. Alaska,
Fairbanks, USA
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
Mining the Tourists, Touring the
Mines in Potosi, Bolivia
Michael PRETES, Stanford Univ., USA
Discussant: Sharman HALEY, Univ.
Alaska, Anchorage, USA
11:45 12:30
The Alaska Highway and a Proposed
Trans-Canada-Alaska Railroad
Claus-M. NASKE, Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Discussant: Matt BERMAN, Univ.
Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Wednesday, 9:00 AM 12:30
PM
Paper Session 5E
Environmental Assessment
Chair: Joe MCCLURE, McClure
Associates, Phoenix, AZ, USA
9:00 9:45
Political Decisions and Economic
Externalities: The Perverse Dynamics of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway
Project
Paul C. HUSZAR, Colorado State Univ., USA, and Sigrid ANDERSEN, Consultoria
Ambiental, Curitiba, Brazil
Discussant: Bob BEGG, Indiana Univ.
Pennsylvania, USA
9:45 10:30
The SynCon Project: Arctic Environmental
Contamination Assessment
Kara L. NANCE, Sharon W. GEORGE, and Mahla STROHMAIER, Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks
Discussant: Peter TREUNER, Univ.
Stuttgart, Germany
10:30 11:00,
Coffee Break
11:00 11:45
Assessing the Financial and Economic
Feasibility of Rural Water System Improvements
Steven PIPER, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, USA
Discussant: L. Michael FARRELL,
Univ. Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
11:45 12:30
Conservation Estimation through
December 1997 for the Las Vegas Valley Water District
Chris MEENAN, Las Vegas Valley Water District, USA
Discussant: R. Bruce BILLINGS,
Univ. Arizona, USA
Wednesday, February 24,
Afternoon
12:30 2:00 PM, Lunch (on your own)
2:00 5:30 PM
Five Concurrent Paper Sessions: 6A, 6B,
6C, 6D, 6E
(3:30 4:00 PM, Coffee Break)
5:30 PM, Close of Conference
Wednesday, 2:00 4:45 PM
Paper Session 6A
Special Session on International
Borders
Chair: B. Martin R. VAN DER
VELDE, Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2:00 2:45
Search Behavior on a Cross-Border
Labor Market
B. Martin R. VAN DER VELDE, Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Discussant: Hannu TERVO, Univ.
Jyväskylä, Finland
2:45 3:30
Cross-border Labor Markets in the
EU: Observed versus Potential Mobility in Germany and The Netherlands
Peter DE GIJSEL, Univ. Maastricht, The Netherlands, and Manfred JANSSEN,
Univ. Osnabrueck, Germany
Discussant: John SPINDLER, Univ.
Arizona, USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Do Borders Matter in International
Economic Networking?
Henk VAN HOUTUM, Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Discussant: Kingsley E. HAYNES,
George Mason Univ., USA
Wednesday, 2:00 4:45 PM
Paper Session 6B
Remote Regions / Northern
Development IV: Views of the North
Chair: Claus-M. NASKE, Univ.
Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
2:00 2:45
Two Views of the New Harpoon: Economic
Analysis of Alaskas Native Regional Corporations
Steve COLT, Univ. Alaska, Anchorage
Discussant: Michael PRETES, Stanford
Univ., USA
2:45 3:30
Shifting Paradigms on the Last
Frontier: Remoteness and the Alaska Village Economy
Lee HUSKEY, Univ. Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Discussant: Margaret ANDERSON,
Univ. Northern British Columbia, Canada
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Canadas North and the Definition
of Region: Towards a More Productive Categorization of Canadas Regions
Chris SOUTHCOTT, Lakehead Univ., Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Discussant: Claus-M. NASKE, Univ.
Alaska, Fairbanks
Wednesday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 6C
Regional Modeling III
Chair: José Manuel PAVIÁ,
Univ. Valencia, Spain
2:00 2:45
Regional Dynamic Forecasting through
Error Correction Mechanisms
Luis-Eduardo VILA and Rosa BADILLO, Univ. Valencia, Spain
Discussant: James NOLAN, Univ.
Saskatchewan, Canada
2:45 3:30
Economic Disturbances and Regional
Employment Fluctuations: A Structural VAR Approach
Heonsoo PARK and Kyuyoung CHO, Anyang Univ., Korea
Discussant: Serge REY, San Diego
State Univ., USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
New Extensions to Tinbergen-Bos
Systems
Jean H. P. PAELINCK, Erasmus Univ., The Netherlands
Discussant: Charlie KARLSSON, Jönköping
Univ., Sweden
4:45 5:30
The Role of Income in Welfare Evaluations
with RUM
Anders KARLSTRÖM, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Discussant: James GIESECKE, Univ.
Tasmania, Australia
Wednesday, 2:00 4:45 PM
Paper Session 6D
Urban Environmental Issues
and Analysis
Chair: Kara L. NANCE, Univ.
Alaska, Fairbanks
2:00 2:45
Integration of Socio-Economic and
Ecological Objectives in Critical Land Use Decisions
Peter TREUNER, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Discussant: Chris MEENAN, Las Vegas
Valley Water District, USA
2:45 3:30
Urban Air Quality and Residential
Property Values
G. Rod ERFANI, Transylvania Univ., Lexington, KY, USA
Discussant: Timothy HOGAN, Arizona
State Univ., USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
Apartment Complex Characteristics
as Determinants of Apartment Water Demand in a Desert City
Donald E. AGTHE, Economic Consultant, Tucson, AZ, USA, and R. Bruce BILLINGS,
Univ. Arizona, USA
Discussant: Steven PIPER, U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, USA
Wednesday, 2:00 5:30 PM
Paper Session 6E
State and Local Policy Analysis
Chair: Bob MONAHAN, Western
Washington Univ., USA
2:00 2:45
The Impact of Airport Operations
on Land Values: A Case Study of Seattle Tacoma International Airport
Ted LANE, Thomas/Lane & Associates, Seattle, WA, USA
Discussant: Joe MCCLURE, McClure
Associates, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2:45 3:30
Budgeting by Ballot: Regional Variations
in Recent California Statewide Referenda
Jack W. OSMAN and C. Daniel VENCILL, San Francisco State Univ., USA
Discussant: Stephen C. COOKE, Univ.
Idaho, USA
3:30 4:00, Coffee
Break
4:00 4:45
The Mexican Border Cities: An Alternative
Approach for Urban Povertys Reduction
César Fuentes FLORES and Mahyar AREFI, El Colegio de la Frontera
NorteCiudad Juárez, Mexico
Discussant: Lay James GIBSON, Univ.
Arizona, USA
4:45 5:30
Fraud, Insider Abuse and Illegal
Real Estate Flips
L. Michael FARRELL, Univ. du Québec à Trois-Rivières,
Canada
Discussant: Andrew NARWOLD, Univ.
San Diego, USA
Wednesday, 5:30
PM
Close of Conference
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