La relevancia de las economías de aglomeración tipo urbanización sobre múltiples variables y/o dinámicas económicas se encuentra ampliamente documentada en la literatura. Sin embargo, es difícil ofrecer una medida sintética del nivel de aglomeración urbana que alcanza un territorio. En...

In this paper, we put forth the view that the potential for urbanisation economies increases with interaction opportunities. On the basis of that premise, three properties are key to an agglomeration index, which should: (i) increase with the concentration of population and conform to the...

In April 2022, the French presidential elections were held, where in the second round, two candidates who embodied the Europeanist and pro-establishment option (Macron) and the populist and anti-system option (Le Pen) faced each other. This situation, combined with the high level of spatial...