Research

Research in Progress

• Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation, and Economic Geography. With Minoru Osawa.

• Dissociating risk and uncertainty in decision-making: A neuroeconomic approach. With Tiago O. Paiva (PI), José Gaspar (Co-PI), Carina Fernandes, Carsten De Dreu, Fernando Barbosa, João Marques-Teixeira, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Ricardo Gonçalves, Rita Pasion, Carlos Seixas and Carlos Campos. Link.

• Agglomeration in an economic corridor. With Kiyohiro Ikeda.

• Working from home in a spatial economy. With Liliana Garrido-da-Silva, João Correia-da-Silva and Jacques-François Thisse.

• Production externalities and dispersion process in a multi-region economy. In arXiv. With Minoru Osawa.

• On the disentanglement of an economic union. With Jorge Saraiva and Kiyohiro Ikeda.

• Measuring inequality of opportunity across EU-SILC countries: national and urban-rural perspectives, With Zbigniew Mogila and Patrícia C. Melo.

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Saraiva, J., Gaspar, J. M., Ikeda, K. 2025, On the disentanglement of an economic union, Journal of Regional Science, accepted.

• Gaspar, J. M. 2025, Heterogeneity, trade integration and spatial inequality, Journal of Dynamics and Games, 12(4), 430-445. DOI. Also in arXiv.

• Ikeda, K., Aizawa, H., Gaspar, J. M. 2024, Bifurcation mechanism at a sustain point of a long narrow economy, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 34(10), 2430021.  DOI.

• Gaspar, J. M., Garrido-da-Silva, L., Vasconcelos, P.B., Afonso, O. 2023, Local and global indeterminacy and transition dynamics in a growth model with public goods, Portuguese Economic Journal, 22, 271-314. DOI. 

• Ikeda, K., Takayama, Y., Gaspar, J. M., Osawa, M. 2022, Perturbed cusp catastrophe in a population game: Spatial economics with locational asymmetries, Journal of Regional Science, 62, 961-980. DOI.

• Mogila, Z., Melo, P., Gaspar, J. M . 2022, Estimating labour income-based inequality of opportunity for a selection of EU-SILC countries: national and urban-rural perspectives, Regional Science Policy & Practice, 14(5), 1158–1187. DOI. WP version.

• Castro, S. B. S. D., Correia-da-Silva, J., Gaspar, J. M. 2022, Economic Geography meets Hotelling: the home-sweet-home effect, Economic Theory, 73, 183-209. DOI. Preprint.

• Gaspar, J. M. 2021, New Economic Geography: history and debate, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28(1), 46–82. DOI. Preprint version.

• Gaspar, J. M., Ikeda, K., Onda, M. 2021, Global bifurcation mechanism and local stability of identical and equidistant regions: Application to three regions and more, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 86, 103597. DOI.  Preprint.

• Aizawa, H., Ikeda, K., Osawa, M., Gaspar, J. M. 2020, Breaking and sustaining bifurcations in S_N-invariant equidistant economy, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 30(16), 2050240. DOI. WP Version.

• Gaspar, J. M . 2020, Paul Krugman: contributions to geography and trade, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 13, 99-115. DOI. Preprint version. View only version.

• Gaspar, J. M, Castro, S.B.S.D., Correia-da-Silva, J., 2019, The Footloose Entrepreneur model with a finite number of equidistant regions, International Journal of Economic Theory, 16(4), 420-446 DOI.

• Gaspar, J. M, Castro, S.B.S.D., Correia-da-Silva, J., 2018, Agglomeration patterns in a multi-regional economy without income effects, Economic Theory, 66 (4), 863-899. DOI. WP version.

• Gaspar, J. M., 2018, Bridging the Gap between Economic Modelling and Simulation: A Simple Dynamic Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply Model with Matlab, Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2018, 3193068, 13 pages. DOI.

• Gaspar, J. M., 2018, A prospective review on New Economic Geography, The Annals of Regional Science, 61 (2), 237-272. DOI. WP version.

• Gaspar, J. M, Vasconcelos, P.B. and O. Afonso, 2014, Economic Growth and Multiple Equilibria: A Critical Note, Economic Modelling, 36, 157-160. DOI.

Book Chapters

• Gaspar J.M. (2020) New Economic Geography: Economic Integration and Spatial Imbalances. In: Colombo S. (eds) Spatial Economics Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. DOI.

Unpublished work

• Innovation through intra and inter-regional interaction in economic geography  In arXiv. With Minoru Osawa.

• How Social Interactions Matter When Distance Dies? "). With Minoru Osawa.

Organization of scientific events

Conferences and workshops:

• 2nd Porto workshop on Economic Geography, Regional Development, and Migrations, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, 6 June, 2022.

Other publications and working papers

Presentations