Place
and political geography
Götz, F., Montello, D., Varnum, M., Luca, D., Kenrick, D., (2025), The geography-psychological interactionist framework, Nature Human Behaviour, link.
Luca, D., Kenny M., (2024), Drifting further apart? Europe’s trends of urban-rural political polarisation should not be overstated, Political Geography, 114: 103181, link.
Media coverage: BBC Radio 4, Le Monde.
McNeil, A., Luca, D., Lee, N. (2023), The long shadow of local decline: birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK, Journal of Urban Economics, 136: 103571, link. WP version: link.
Media coverage: The Guardian/Observer.
Luca, D., Terrero-Davila, J., Stein, J., Lee, N. (2023), Progressive cities: urban-rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world, Urban Studies, 60(12): 2329-2350, link.
Media coverage: New York Times.
Kenny, M. Luca, D. (2021), Political disenchantment and the urban-rural divide: An investigation of social and political attitudes across 30 European countries, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 14(3), pp. 565-582, link. WP version: link.
Media coverage: The Independent, BBC Radio 4, Le Monde, Deutschlandradio, RND Deutchsland.
Political economy
of spatial divergence
Luca, D., Ozguzel, C., Wei, Z. (2025), The new geography of remote jobs in Europe, Regional Studies, 59(1), 2352526, link. WP versions: link, link.
Luca, D. (2022), National elections, subnational growth: The politics of Turkey’s provincial economic dynamics under AKP rule, Journal of Economic Geography, 22(4): 829-851, link.
Media coverage: Asia Times.
Lee, N., Luca, D. (2019), The big-city bias in credit markets. Evidence from firm perceptions in almost 100 countries, Journal of Economic Geography, 199-224, link. WP version: link.
Luca, D., Rodríguez-Pose, A. (2019), Building consensus: Shifting strategies in the territorial targeting of Turkey’s public transport investment, Regional Studies, 53(11), 1591-1602, link.
Luca, D. (2017), Boon or bane for development? Turkey’s central state bureaucracy and the management of public investment, Environment and Planning C, 35(6), 939-957, link.
Luca, D. (2016), Votes and regional economic growth in Turkey, World Development, 78, 477-495, link.
Crescenzi, R., Luca, D., Milio, S. (2016), Resistance to the crisis in Europe: national macroeconomic conditions, regional structural factors and short-term economic performance, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 9(1), 13-32, link.
Luca, D., Rodríguez-Pose, A. (2015), Distributive politics and regional development: assessing the territorial distribution of Turkey’s public investment, Journal of Development Studies, 51(11), 1518-1540, link.
Policy
evaluation of place-based and other spatially targeted actions
Li, Q. Luca, D., Fuerst, F., Wei, Z. (2023), Success in tandem? The impact of the introduction of e-bike sharing on bike sharing usage, Research in Transportation Economics, 107: 101476, link.
Li, Q., Zhang, E., Luca, D., Fuerst, F. (2023), The travel pattern difference in dockless micro-mobility: shared e-bikes versus shared bikes, Transportation Research Part D, 130: 104179, link.
Li, Q., Fuerst, F., Luca, D. (2023), Do shared e-bikes reduce urban carbon emissions? Journal of Transport Geography, 112: 103697, link.
Luca, D., Proietti, P. (2022), Hosting to skim: organised crime and thse reception of asylum seekers in Italy, Regional Studies, 56(12): 2102-2116, link.
Luca, D., Modrego, F. (2021), Stronger together? Estimating the causal effect of inter-municipal cooperation on the efficiency of small Italian municipalities, Journal of Regional Science, 61(1), pp 261-293, link.
Salone, C., Luca, D. (2013), Teorie regionali e regioni istituzionali. Per un’ontologia del rapporto tra spazi di governo e spazi di azione collettiva, Rivista Geografica Italiana, 120(3), pp. 209-224, link.
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