Economic downturn of Rio de Janeiro in last decades is an stylized fact in regional economics in Brazil. People worry if São Paulo is attracting jobs that are lost in Rio. In this paper we investigate the economic foundations of this problem. We first derive an analytical framework and hence do...

In this study we analyze some methods that can be used to perform grouping of unit that make up a public service delivery system (e.g., schools, health centers and police stations). The methods discussed here are: i) one based on some spatial partition of the units (for example, grouping by...