The sustained current account deficit in any country has an important implication for policy. If it continues, then it suggests that the regime ought to have no motivation to avoid or to diminish its international debt. In this paper, we test empirically the relationship among current account...

The aim of this paper is to analyse whether the well-being of the 770 municipalities of Andalusia (Spain) in 2009 responded to geographical patterns. We have developed a synthetic index of well-being via the P2 Distance method that incorporates economic and non-economic indicators, and which...

The aim of this study is to present a methodology that may be used for districting, that is, to divide a city into homogeneous districts, using the housing characteristics of the city as the criterion for such a division. The methodology is based on the use of principal component analysis into...

Cokriging is a multivariate spatial method to estimate spatial correlated variables. This method allows spatial estimations to be made and interpolated maps of house price to be created. These maps are interesting for appraisers, real estate companies, and bureaus because they provide an...