Heterogeneous economic resilience and the great recession's world trade collapse*. (4th January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: van Bergeijk, Peter A.G.; Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles
• Is Part Of: Papers in regional science. Volume 96:Number 1(2017)
• Page Start: 3
• Page End: 12
• Publication Date: 2017-01-04
• Subjects: Resilience -- great recession -- trade collapse -- global shock; Regional planning -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; Urbanization -- Periodicals; Economic geography -- Periodicals; 307.12
• DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12279
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1056-8190

Abstract

Abstract: This special section aims to fill a gap in the regional resilience literature and to stimulate future spatial studies of resilience to include the international dimension in empirical analyses. It demonstrates the do‐ability and relevance by the natural experience of the global trade collapse that allows us to separate the effect of collapse upon event and ex post recovery because no ex ante resilience measures were taken. This is a great methodological advantage with respect to the literature on natural disasters and financial crises that is confronted with the difficulty of identifying resilience because of ex ante measures (prevention or inherent resilience measures) and ex post measures (recovery or adaptive resilience measures).