Proper assessment of air quality is of paramount importance. Accordingly, authorities in large cities have established air pollution monitoring networks that register levels of the most dangerous pollutants in a number of city locations on an hourly basis. Thus, the dataset including such...

Much work has been done in the context of the hedonic price theory to estimate the impact of air quality on housing prices. Research has employed objective measures of air quality, but only slightly confirms the hedonic theory in the best of cases: the implicit price function relating housing...

This paper deals with an important pollution problem affecting millions of people, especially in urban areas and large cities: NOx. This dangerous pollutant is emitted by high temperature combustion and therefore its main source is transportation, which in turn is a consequence of an increase in...

We analyze the co-movement of a number of commodity markets in extreme financial episodes worldwide. More specifically, we provide extreme downside risk co-movement maps of these markets during six recent distress periods. We follow an expected shortfall-multidimensional scaling approach, which...

We model the complex global dependencies in international financial markets using spatial techniques. Our methodology allows us to go beyond conventional correlation analyses and volatility-spillover models confined to studying pairwise relationships, and improves the accuracy of return...

The liberalization and deregulation of the Spanish electricity market has provoked an increase in the complexity of pricing behaviour. In particular, the volatility of electricity spot prices is the feature that best characterises the current Spanish market. Since an understanding of the...

Introduction -- Part I-New Teaching-Learning Models in Economic Education -- Chapter 1. Pedagogical Framework Targeting the Enhancement of Instruction in Quantitative Economic and Business disciplines -- Chapter 2. Enhancing Teaching Innovations in Business Administration and Management Through...