could be very significant in explaining regional variations in income and poverty. The major question this paper tries to …

This paper analyses the foundations, possible applications and the effects of tourism taxation in Spain. The article … tourism taxation in Spain, with special mention being given to the now repealed Balearic ecotasa. Finally, the effects of two … begins with an analysis of the economic and environmental reasons for taxing tourism, which would seem to call for taxes …

-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past decade. We assess the …

exports cause economic growth in the long-term for both countries, whilst only for Spain tourism appears as a factor which …Nowadays many developing countries focus on economic policies for promoting international tourism and exports expansion … and economic growth is still ongoing. When treating the relationship between tourism and economic growth, considering …

in the tourism industries are presented for the national, regional and local level along with the respective maps and, as … Information) to generate statistics for employment in the tourism industries at the subnational level. Overall data for employment … tourism industries are provided for Brazil, Bahia, Salvador and touristic cities in Bahia. The experience of Brazil shows that …

levels of spatial autocorrelation of the data are explicitly considered. We carry out our empirical exercise on regional … unemployment data for France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Additionally, we test different forecasting horizons, in order … boundaries in forecasting regional data. We compare two classes of methods: spatial VAR and dynamic panel augmented by …

interfaces for theory building, methods, and comparative research from an economic geography and regional economics perspective … qualitative methods and forward thinking concepts of space (e.g., relational or topical points of view for comparison). Regional … of regional or big data and advanced quantitative methods (e.g., manifold indexes capturing refiguration). …

knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative … explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who search for knowledge. It is shown that a regional dimension exists … in these processes that results from a regional bias in an actor's search activities. Social embeddedness, a shared …