Isabelle Nilsson

Profile

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and a faculty in the Public Policy Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte. My research interests are primarily focused on firm and industry location behavior. Other areas of research include transportation and housing. In particular I am interested in the effects of public policy and public investments on firm and household location behavior.

Some of my recent research projects include explorations into the effects of zoning on retail firm location behavior; location behaviors in the craft beer industry; the changing industrial organization of US megaregions; the interactions between transit investments and low-income households in terms of location, accessibility and income mobility; effects of neighborhood foreclosure rates on mortgage lending denial rates; and estimating migration rates associated with economic development projects. My research is quantitative and often data intensive with theoretical grounding in economics as well as geography.

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Education

Ph.D. (2015) Spatially Integrated Social Science (Geography/Economics), University of Toledo
M.A. (2011) Economics, University of Toledo
M.Sc. (2009) Economics, Luleå University of Technology (Sweden)

Teaching

Regional Economic Development
Applied Regional Analysis
Retail Location
Transportation Analysis Methods

Recent Publications

Nilsson, I., N. Reid and M. Lehnert, 2017. Geographic Patterns of Craft Breweries at the Intra-Metropolitan Scale, The Professional Geographer, forthcoming.

Haggquist, E. and I. Nilsson, 2016. Factors Influencing the Adoption of Geological Information in Swedish Municipalities, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 60:1112-1126.

Nilsson, I. and O. Smirnov, 2016. Clustering vs. Relative Location: Measuring Spatial Interactions between Retail Outlets, Papers in Regional Science, forthcoming (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12219).

Schafer, S. and I. Nilsson, 2016. The Effects of Public and Private Investments in ITS on Freight Transportation Outcomes, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2548:90-96.

Nilsson, I. and O. Smirnov, 2016. Measuring the Effect of Transportation Infrastructure on Retail Firm Co-Location Patterns, Journal of Transport Geography, 51:110-118.