This paper aims to contrast the spillover effects in business failure derived from the geographic proximity among firms of the same sector. To get this purpose, we develop an empirical application based on the analysis of the join-count statistics on a sample of firms of service sector located...

This paper aims to contrast the spillover effects in business failure derived from the geographic proximity among firms of the same sector. To get this purpose, we develop an empirical application based on the analysis of the join-count statistics on a sample of firms of service sector located...

Accounting for spatial structures in econometric studies is becomingan issue of special interest, given the presence of spatial dependence and spatialheterogeneity problems arising in data. Generally, researchers have been employingparametric tests for detecting spatial dependence structures:...

Las entidades locales son la principal fuente de financiación de actividades culturales, deportivas y medioambientales. Aunque hay consenso generalizado sobre la presencia de dependencia espacial en los modelos que explican el gasto en estas partidas, el signo de la dependencia espacial es...

In this research we study the relationship between concentration of scoring production (measured with the Gini index of team points) and teams’ offensive efficiency (measured as normalised team points per minutes played and possessions) in the game of basketball. We record the aggregate...