This paper takes the shelf and digs into the complex population's age structure of Catalan municipalities between 1999 and 2009. Catalonia is a very heterogeneous territory, and age pyramids vary considerably across different areas of the territory, existing geographical factors shaping...

L<sc>iviano</sc> D. and A<sc>rauzo-</sc>C<sc>arod</sc> J.-M. Industrial location and spatial dependence: an empirical application, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper tries to resolve some of the main shortcomings in the empirical literature on location decisions for new plants, that is, spatial effects and over-dispersion....

This paper intends to shed light on the treatment of zero counts in count data (CD) industrial location models. An excess of zeros and overdispersion has been dealt with by estimating mixture models such as negative binomial, zero-inflated and hurdle models. However, the existence of a...

This paper takes the shelf and digs into the complex population's age structure of Catalan municipalities between 1999 and 2009. Catalonia is a very heterogeneous territory, and age pyramids vary considerably across different areas of the territory, existing geographical factors shaping...

This paper is about determinants of migration at a local level. We use data from Catalan municipalities in order to understand what explains migration patterns of population between 2004 and 2010. The contribution of this paper is to present an empirical application made using data from...