A simultaneous model of house values, cancer mortality and total releases is estimated to study the economic cost of environmental health risks. Health risks include county level total releases from the Toxics Release Inventory, number of Superfund sites, and cancer mortality in the Southeastern...

Most global indices of concentrations are obtained as weighted averages of convex functions of distributions ratios, such as the per capita income. We seek to define local indices of concentrations, comparing the wealth of a region to its neighbours, where the spatial weights defining...

This article develops a growth-based regionalisation of the United States using both principal components and cluster analyses to endogenously sort states into regional transition clubs with somewhat uniform annual rates of per capita real GSP growth in the period 1977-2004. I correlate the...

We investigate the challenges that migration flows pose on policymaking aimed at fostering human capital accumulation in peripheral regions. We employ a unique data set generated through a postal survey designed and conducted by the authors. The focus of our analysis is on the micro-level...

The supply chain network equilibrium problem with capacity constraints (SCNE-C) is an extension of the supply chain network equilibrium problem (SCNE), which also takes into account capacity constraints which refer to the maximum production capacity for a manufacturer or the maximum...

This article presents a model for developing countries that investigates the factors behind agglomeration of activities in urban giants. First we show that market access to external demand tends to attract entrepreneurs. Second we find that the attractive power of the urban giant can be linked...

This paper deals with the transitions and alternation between self-employment, paid-employment and non-employment in Finland in 1987-1999, paying special attention to differences in self-employment dynamics between areas characterized by different labour market conditions, viz. rural and urban...

This paper aims to assess to what extent deterioration of Italy's trade competitiveness in manufacturing over the decade 1993-2004 has been determined by the evolution of localised comparative advantages in knowledge based industries. Stressing Kaldor's idea of dynamic increasing returns in...