In this paper we try to identify manufacturing and service clusters in Spain, using data from Mercantile Registers of 2006. The proposed methodology partially follows contributions of Duranton and Overman (2005), Brenner (2003 and 2004) and Ellison and Glaser (1997), but departing from them we...

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...

This paper evaluates the economic impact of petroleum-refining production worldwide. The analysis, which is based on an inter-regional input-output model of the world economy, quantifies the gross production that should be attributed to the refining sector at both country and global levels. We...

Durante los años 90 se llevó a cabo un intenso programa de construcción de carreteras de alta capacidad en la red viaria española, lo que se tradujo en una sustancial mejora de la accesibilidad de los municipios. El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar si esta mayor accesibilidad ha tenido...