This paper presents an exercise in the definition of cities from clear and explicit quantitative criteria. The city concept is linked to the local political level, so in this sense we can talk about “administrative cities”, since they are formed by one municipality, or a group of them that...

This paper presents an exercise in the estimation of rural and urban population at municipal level. Our starting point is a population density grid at 1 km2 resolution and national coverage, which has been elaborated previously by the authors. Applying standard criteria in European official...

This paper makes a proposal for a taxonomy of boundary changes in Spanish municipalities along time. The different types of changes are organized in a hierarchy, as well as represented in a homogeneous manner, independently of the number of municipalities involved and of the changes suffered....

This paper presents Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) at the national level for the years 2004, 2005 y 2006, and at the regional level (NUTS 2) by pooling the information of these three years from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey. This is the...

The paper aims to analyze the sources and criteria used to elaborate historical series ofthe main aggregates and macromagnitudes of the fourteen Spanish industrial sectors for the 1964-1989 period. Specifically, it presents Gross Value Added (GVA) sector series at factor cost andits distribution...

This paper tries to precisely date the change of monetary policy regimeoccurred in Spain along the year 1984 moving away from controlling monetaryaggregates into interest rate targeting. The most likely date for the changeis estimated and, surprisingly, there is evidence that agents learn...

This paper presents an evaluation, from the user point of view, of the regular population grid, with 1 km2 resolution, that the Spanish National Statistical Institute (INE), has released as a product from the last Population and Dwellings Census 2011. This way of disseminating population data is...

This is a user's guide for the DYNFAC package. A program written in GAUSS toestimate, by maximum likelihood in the time domain, DYNamic FACtor analytic modelswith one common factor (single-index models), by means of the Kalman filter.The underlying theory and methods are briefly explained. Esta...

This paper aims at disentangling the sectoral and aggregate affects of both aggregate and sector-specific shocks by means of static and dynamic factor analytical models. We use two data sets, Gross Value Added and the industrial Production Index, and the results differ slightly. For the...

With reference to the Baumol/de Long controversy over the importance of the sample selection when verifying the convergence hypothesis, the paper concludes that the convergence results are conditioned by the joint consideration of the United States and Japan in the same country sample. The...