Mark Thissen

TL;DR: The authors found that the regions that voted strongly for leave tended to be those same regions with the highest levels of dependency on European Union markets for their local economic development, which flies in the face of pro-leave narratives that posited that the major beneficiaries of European Union membership were the "metropolitan elites" of London.

TL;DR: In this article, a recursive dynamic multiregional supply-use model, combining linear programming and input-output (I-O) modeling, is presented to assess the economy-wide consequences of a natural disaster on a pan-European scale.

TL;DR: This article employed an extension of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) with regional detail for EU countries to study the degree to which EU regions and countries are exposed to negative trade-related consequences of Brexit.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the economic impact of different model types in a systematic way and for the same geographical area, using similar input data, using three regional disaster impact models: two hybrid input-output (IO) models and a CGE model.

TL;DR: McCann and Ortega-Argiles as discussed by the authors proposed a smart specialization strategy: Locational and Network Determinants of International Competitiveness, and revealed competition in European Regions.