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Economic regions based on the agglomeration economics : an evaluation for the Spanish case. : 51th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, New Challeng...

Rubiera Morollón, Fernando; Viñuela, Ana - 2011

What is region? From an economic point of view, a region is a unit in which capital and labour move freely and goods and services are totally open to trade with other regions without any frontiers or limitations. The openness of the regions and their interaction with other regions are their main...

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Regional dynamics of private pension funds in Romania : 51th European Congress of the Regional Science Association International, 30th August - 3rd September 2011, Barcelona, Spain

Constantinescu, Dan - 2011

The number of participants in the private pension funds, as well as the volume of their contribution, differs significant in each development region. It goes without saying that the territorial distribution of the indicators related to pension funds are influenced, on the one hand, by the offer...

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The impact of objective and subjective measures of air quality and noise on house prices : a multilevel approach for downtown Madrid

Chasco Yrigoyen, Coro; Le Gallo, Julie - 2011 - Draft version

Air quality is one of the major concerns in big cities. It is therefore of interest to evaluate properly air pollution. Specifically, this paper aims at measuring how air quality is incorporated in transaction prices in downtown Madrid. For that purpose, we use multilevel models since our sample...

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Linking Regional Science and Urban Economics : Long-Run Interactions among Preferences for Amenities and Public Goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2014

The linked nature of long-term patterns of urban deconcentration and regional change (from rustbelt to sunbelt) is analyzed in a framework that emphasizes heterogeneous human preferences. The focus is on the important interactions that exist between local and regional amenities, whether...

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What makes cities more productive? : evidence on the role of urban governance from five OECD countries

Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2014

(Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental …

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Regional trade and logistics infrastructure : a spatial approach

Alamá, Luisa; Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Suárez, Celestino; … - 2011

This paper aims to analyze whether the existing logistics platforms network in Spain affects Spanish transport demand … proxy for logistics infrastructure demand in Spain. Then, we obtain data for trade flows between provinces (NUTS3) in the … for the transportation network structure in Spain. In a first step, we construct weight matrixes considering first …

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Explaining job polarisation in Spain from a task perspective

Sebastian, Raquel - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 2, pp. 215-248

This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation in Spain between 1994 and 2014. After showing the …

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Spanish exports and logistics needs : a spatial approach

Alamá, Luisa; Márquez-Ramos, Laura; Suárez, Celestino - 2010

This paper aims to analyse whether the existing logistic platforms network in Spain is covering the Spanish transport … export goods as a proxy of the demand of logistics infrastructure in Spain. Then, we obtain data of trade flows between … 2000 and 2007. We also obtain data about the different logistics platforms existing in Spain. We incorporate transportation …

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What makes cities more productive? : evidence from 5 OECD countries on the role of urban governance

Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2016

In estimating agglomeration benefits across five OECD countries, this paper represents the first empirical analysis that contrasts cross-country evidence on agglomeration benefits with the productivity impact of metropolitan governance structures, while taking into account the potential sorting...

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What makes cities more productive? : agglomeration economies and the role of urban governance : evidence from 5 OECD countries

Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2017

This paper estimates agglomeration benefits across five OECD countries, and represents the first empirical analysis that combines evidence on agglomeration benefits and the productivity impact of metropolitan governance structures, while taking into account the potential sorting of individuals...

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