According to Duranton (2008), the main focus of spatial economics is the location choice of the economic agents. In order to explain the location and the agglomeration of agents in certain locations, one must relax the core assumptions of the neoclassic competitive framework. According to Fujita...

This paper picks up from a literature and bibliometric review published in Papers in Regional Science (Biscaia and Mota, Models of Spatial Competition: A Critical Review. Papers in Regional Science, 9 (4), 851–871, 2013) and extends it for the most recent years. Our main goal is the analysis...

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past cognitive skills: teacher and national exam scores. By using a nationwide dataset, we look at how the predictive power of teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting...

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past cognitive skills: teacher and national exam scores. By using a nationwide dataset, we look at how the predictive power of teacher assessment and exam scores for selecting...

This article focuses on the location decision of firms when competing in a spatial Cournot duopoly. Our original contribution is that firms are dependent on a natural resource input, which is assumed to be located in one of the extremes of the market, to be able to produce the output sought by...

Chapter 1: A New Methodology for Low-Density Definition and its Effect on Tourism Development Analysis – the Case of Portugal -- Chapter 2:Assessing the Impact of Tourist Activities on Low-Density Territories: The Case of the Historical Villages of Portugal -- Chapter 3:Information Systems and...