Steven Bond-Smith
Assistant Professor, UHERO
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Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Waikato, 2015
M.M.S., Economics, University of Waikato, 2009
B.M.S., Economics, University of Waikato, 2006
Research Interests
Urban and Regional Economics, Spatial Economics, Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation, Regional Economic Policy
Steven joined UHERO as an Assistant Professor in 2021. His research examines how distance and scale shape productivity, growth, and regional development, with emphasis on small and isolated economies such as Hawaiʻi. Recent work includes a model of work-from-home that predicts “donut” and “shadow” effects in urban systems; an analysis of scale assumptions in growth theory and their spatial implications; and a study of how internal migration affects manufacturing productivity in Vietnam. He is a co-editor for the journal, Spatial Economic Analysis. Before UHERO he was a Senior Research Fellow in Economics at Curtin University and held various government, corporate, and consulting roles in Australia and Aotearoa.
Selected Publications
Bond-Smith, S., and McCann, P. “Shadows and donuts: The work-from-home revolution and the performance of cities”, Journal of Regional Science, 2025. doi:10.1111/jors.70008.
Bond-Smith D., Bond-Smith, S., and Juarez, R. “Rural health disparities: Evidence from Hawaiʻi”, Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 74, no. 68, 2025. doi:10.1007/s00168-025-01391-5.
Bond-Smith, S., “Combining agglomeration economies and endogenous growth without scale effects”, Spatial Economic Analysis, vol. 19, no. 3, 2024, pp 287-308. doi:10.1080/17421772.2023.2280106.
Bond-Smith, S., “Diversifying Hawaiʻi’s specialized economy: A spatial economic perspective”, Economic Development Quarterly, vol 38., no.1, 2024, pp. 40-59. doi:10.1177/08912424231183941.
Bond-Smith, S., “The unintended consequences of increasing returns to scale in geographical economics,” Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 21, no. 5, 2021, pp. 653-681. doi:10.1093/jeg/lbab023.
Bond-Smith, S., and McCann, P., “A multi-sector model of relatedness, growth and industry clustering,” Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 20, no. 5, 2020, pp.1145-1163. doi:10.1093/jeg/lbz031.
Bond-Smith, S., “The decades-long dispute over scale effects in the theory of economic growth,” Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 33, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1359-1388. doi:10.1111/joes.12329.