The use of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) has become an essential element for competitiveness in modern economies. New competitive advantages often relate to capacity of innovation, the correct use of information and communication technologies, product design or market analysis,...

El intenso crecimiento que en las últimas décadas han protagonizado los servicios en España, aún mayor cuando se mide en términos de empleo, no puede ocultar la existencia de grados y ritmos diferenciados entre las regiones. Aceptando que la distribución de servicios públicos en todo el...

El intenso crecimiento que en las últimas décadas han protagonizado los servicios en España, aún mayor cuando se mide en términos de empleo, no puede ocultar la existencia de grados y ritmos diferenciados entre las regiones. Aceptando que la distribución de servicios públicos en todo el...

Empirical evidence on consumer behavior is of major importance in the formulation and analysis of economic policies. Changes in prices, income level, or decisions regarding taxes or other structural reforms that effect relative prices may produce very different effects depending on family income...

Las sociedades actuales se caracterizan por el relevante papel del conocimiento. El dominio del mismo así como la capacidad para incrementarlo se ha convertido en un requisito fundamental para asegurar el crecimiento económico. Esto convierte a las universidades en una pieza clave del...

This book explores different approaches to defining the concept of region depending on the specific question that needs to be answered. While the typical administrative spatial data division fits certain research questions well, in many cases, defining regions in a different way is fundamental...

The spatial distribution of employment in service industries is compared for Spain and Canada for nine (9) industry classes. The empirical and theoretical literature on modern services stresses the importance of agglomeration economies for high-order services. The relationship between city-size...

Regional Economics and Economic Growth focus on the question of trade leads to a greater concentration of economic activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore this paper studies the regional convergence from trade in Mexico after NAFTA....

In this paper we estimate agglomeration economies in Spain in 2009 basing on Ciccone?s (2002) model, which explains average labor productivity in one spatial unit on employment density and other controls. The novelty of our analysis is that the empirical model is estimated at a highly...