Rental levels of office floor space are determined by aspects of the buildings and aspects of the location. In this contribution we focus on the characteristics of locations using a large database of market-transactions. Accessibility proves to have an important impact on price levels. In...

Land use evolution during forty years in a large set of European cities is analysed by means of a cellular automaton. In one hand (the operational level), the use of this modelling tool allows: a: to study the transition rules in land use and the proximity effects on these rules; b: to compare...

We apply spatial interaction models using panel data to explain commuting behaviour in the Netherlands. Our main conclusion is that the distance-decay effect is not constant over time and that changes in this effect are region specific. In more densely populated regions the change in the...

Since the end of the 1960s, the landscapes of major cities have been more and more characterized by the presence of "urban voids". Today these "voids", which are often heterogeneous in their manifestation, dominate the discussions about the transformation and the future of urban areas. The...

Trade structure is usually defined as inter or intra-industrial type. The pattern of production and trade that emerges after opening the economies of transition is partly driven by relative factor prices and endowment and partly by economies of scale and scope, but much depends on historical...

At the end of the century the world has seen important changes in production and distribution systems challenging competence of national economies. Increasing flows of capital and trade among countries, combined with important developments in telecommunications, have pushed towards new...

This paper aims to develop a new spatial economic model for analyzing information flow between head and branch offices. The hierarchy between head and branch offices is modeled, and a way of treating information flow is proposed. Broadband Internet enables both home and office to send and...

GEOX is a computer package of Splus and Matlab routines implementing interactive graphics methods for exploring spatial data. We analyse a large data basis from the regional public health insurance agency concerning physicians'' activity in the Midi-Pyrénées region. We evaluate in particular...

The matching function that postulates a relationship between the flow of new matches and stock of job seekers and vacancies has attracted considerable attention, both theoretical and empirical during the last decade. In this paper the properties of a matching function are examined by using a...

The growing interest on the economic geography issues has provided new vigour to the research efforts aiming at explaining economic phenomena without neglecting space. In particular several studies have focused on the role of spatially bounded externalities on firms agglomeration processes at...