Tasos Kitsos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1038705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tasos Kitsos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tasos |
| FAMILY NAME | Kitsos |
| SIGNATURE | KITSOS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5338-2714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fast and furious: The productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds
The link between digital technologies and productivity has long intrigued researchers. Key to unpacking this relationship is detailed data connecting internet usage, economic outputs, and places. Using a multilevel modelling framework, we combine firm-level microdata with unique internet speed microdata that reflect end-user experiences, distinguishing upload and download speeds. This approach approximates business internet usage and reveals that…
Kibs’ and non-Kibs’ business creation and closure: Evidence from the urban micro-space
Don't Shoot the Pianist: Creative Firms, Workers, and Neighborhood Gentrification
We examine links between creative activity and gentrification at the neighborhood level. These dynamics are both complex and important to understand. Artists may help upgrade inexpensive neighborhoods before being displaced, including by higher-paid creative services workers. Alternatively, creative activity may follow patterns of high-income customers and locales. Many city leaders hope creative industries can drive urban growth while worrying a…
Industrial Embeddedness and Regional Economic Resistance in Europe
We study the role of local industrial embeddedness (the share of regional interindustry economic activity that is anchored to a region) on regional resistance (the difference between pre- and postcrisis employment) to the 2008 Great Recession (GR) in EU and UK NUTS-2 regions. The recession had profound effects in regional economies, which showed diverse performance based on their capacity to absorb the shock. The concept of economic resilience ha…
Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities
Economic geographers have paid much attention to the cultural and creative industries, both for their propensity to cluster in urban settings, and their potential to drive urban economic development. However, evidence on the latter is surprisingly sparse. In this article, we explore the long-term, causal impacts of the cultural and creative industries on surrounding urban economies. Adapting Moretti’s local multipliers framework, we build a new t…
Universities, students and regional economies: A symbiotic relationship
This paper examines the heterogeneous effect of student spending in UK NUTS-2 regions. Impact analyses of the more than £45 billion students spend each year have so far been agnostic of the regional absorptive capacity to benefit from this expenditure. Building a multi-regional input–output model for the UK and combining it with data on student expenditure, domicile and level of study, the paper finds significant regional heterogeneity in gross v…
Dimitris Ballas, Graham Clarke, Rachel S Franklin and Andy Newing. GIS and the social sciences: Theory and applications
Digital economy in the UK: Regional productivity effects of early adoption
Whilst the importance of internet-related technologies and digitization practices to economic performance is well documented, little is known about the long-term effects of the early adoption of such technologies. We use novel, geolocated data about the volume of online content from the Internet Archive to approximate the active engagement with digital economic activities. Using panel-data methods, we find significant positive and long-lasting ef…
Data and the city
Data as information has been accompanying the human race ever since we acquired consciousness of our existence. Whether it was drawing maps leading to fertile lands or observing the position of sta
Digital economy in the UK: Regional productivity effects of early adoption
Whilst the importance of internet-related technologies and digitization practices to economic performance is well documented, little is known about the long-term effects of the early adoption of such technologies. We use novel, geolocated data about the volume of online content from the Internet Archive to approximate the active engagement with digital economic activities. Using panel-data methods, we find significant positive and long-lasting ef…
Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities
Economic geographers have paid much attention to the cultural and creative industries, both for their propensity to cluster in urban settings, and their potential to drive urban economic development. However, evidence on the latter is surprisingly sparse. In this article, we explore the long-term, causal impacts of the cultural and creative industries on surrounding urban economies. Adapting Moretti’s local multipliers framework, we build a new t…
Universities, students and regional economies: A symbiotic relationship
This paper examines the heterogeneous effect of student spending in UK NUTS-2 regions. Impact analyses of the more than £45 billion students spend each year have so far been agnostic of the regional absorptive capacity to benefit from this expenditure. Building a multi-regional input–output model for the UK and combining it with data on student expenditure, domicile and level of study, the paper finds significant regional heterogeneity in gross v…
Industrial Embeddedness and Regional Economic Resistance in Europe
We study the role of local industrial embeddedness (the share of regional interindustry economic activity that is anchored to a region) on regional resistance (the difference between pre- and postcrisis employment) to the 2008 Great Recession (GR) in EU and UK NUTS-2 regions. The recession had profound effects in regional economies, which showed diverse performance based on their capacity to absorb the shock. The concept of economic resilience ha…
Data and the city
Data as information has been accompanying the human race ever since we acquired consciousness of our existence. Whether it was drawing maps leading to fertile lands or observing the position of sta
Dimitris Ballas, Graham Clarke, Rachel S Franklin and Andy Newing. GIS and the social sciences: Theory and applications
Digital economy in the UK: Regional productivity effects of early adoption
Whilst the importance of internet-related technologies and digitization practices to economic performance is well documented, little is known about the long-term effects of the early adoption of such technologies. We use novel, geolocated data about the volume of online content from the Internet Archive to approximate the active engagement with digital economic activities. Using panel-data methods, we find significant positive and long-lasting ef…
Universities, students and regional economies: A symbiotic relationship
This paper examines the heterogeneous effect of student spending in UK NUTS-2 regions. Impact analyses of the more than £45 billion students spend each year have so far been agnostic of the regional absorptive capacity to benefit from this expenditure. Building a multi-regional input–output model for the UK and combining it with data on student expenditure, domicile and level of study, the paper finds significant regional heterogeneity in gross v…
Industrial Embeddedness and Regional Economic Resistance in Europe
We study the role of local industrial embeddedness (the share of regional interindustry economic activity that is anchored to a region) on regional resistance (the difference between pre- and postcrisis employment) to the 2008 Great Recession (GR) in EU and UK NUTS-2 regions. The recession had profound effects in regional economies, which showed diverse performance based on their capacity to absorb the shock. The concept of economic resilience ha…
Creative Clusters and Creative Multipliers: Evidence from UK Cities
Economic geographers have paid much attention to the cultural and creative industries, both for their propensity to cluster in urban settings, and their potential to drive urban economic development. However, evidence on the latter is surprisingly sparse. In this article, we explore the long-term, causal impacts of the cultural and creative industries on surrounding urban economies. Adapting Moretti’s local multipliers framework, we build a new t…
Fast and furious: The productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds
The link between digital technologies and productivity has long intrigued researchers. Key to unpacking this relationship is detailed data connecting internet usage, economic outputs, and places. Using a multilevel modelling framework, we combine firm-level microdata with unique internet speed microdata that reflect end-user experiences, distinguishing upload and download speeds. This approach approximates business internet usage and reveals that…
Kibs’ and non-Kibs’ business creation and closure: Evidence from the urban micro-space
Don't Shoot the Pianist: Creative Firms, Workers, and Neighborhood Gentrification
We examine links between creative activity and gentrification at the neighborhood level. These dynamics are both complex and important to understand. Artists may help upgrade inexpensive neighborhoods before being displaced, including by higher-paid creative services workers. Alternatively, creative activity may follow patterns of high-income customers and locales. Many city leaders hope creative industries can drive urban growth while worrying a…
Economic geography (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Regional development (3 works) · Regional Development and Policy (3 works) · Regional science (3 works) · Regional studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)