Despite the growing global interest in promoting rural development as a strategy to guarantee food security, in developing countries there are large gaps to achieve a sustainable countryside, mainly in rural areas. This research work delves into a methodological approach definition to establish...

This paper studies the relationship between local business tax rates and agglomeration forces in a sample of Spanish municipalities over the period 2005-2017. On the empirical ground we have used semi-parametric techniques and a number of cautions dealing with endogeneity, spatial dependency,...