In this paper, the Spanish demand for food away from home is analysed. A panel data set is built and appropriate techniques for estimating limited dependent variable models have been applied. Results indicate that where there are zero expenditures, these are largely due to infrequency of...

In this paper we analyze the evolution of the Spanish housing market from 1995 to 2010. Between 1995 and 2007, the real estate market was a major driving force for the Spanish economy, with house prices increasing on average by over 10 percent per year. At the start of 2008, the year of the...

In spatial econometrics, it is customary to specify a weighting matrix, the so-called W matrix, just choosing one matrix from the different types of matrices a user is considering (Anselin, 2002). In general, this selection is made a priori, depending on the user’s judgment. This decision...

The local estimation algorithms are well-known techniques in the current spatial econometric literature. The Geographically Weighted Regressions are very popular to estimate, locally, static models, whereas the SALE or the Zoom approaches are useful solutions in the case of dynamic models. These...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of town size on the Spanish demand for food. The methodological approach followed in the study is to use panel data built from the Spanish Quarterly National Expenditure Survey to estimate a demand system. The use of this type of data allows control...

Through this paper we try to discuss the current situation of the research programme in Spatial Econometrics. This discipline has grown very fast during the last decades, in quantity as well as in quality, developing a wide variety of techniques. The results seem satisfactory although there...

The Spatial Durbin model occupies an interesting position in SpatialEconometrics. It is the reduced form of a model with cross-sectional dependencein the errors and it may be used as the nesting equation in a more general approachof model selection. Specifically, in this equation we can obtain...

This paper analyses the causes of deforestation for a representative set of Bolivian municipalities. The literature on environmental economics insists on the importance of physical and social factors. We focus on the last group of variables. Our objective is to identify causal mechanisms between...

In this paper we study the spatial mobility that characterizes the Spanish contemporaneous labor market, focusing our attention on the period 2001-2006. To this end, we use data on registered employment contracts as supplied by the Instituto Nacional de Empleo. Initial objective was to identify...

In this paper we discuss the specification process of a spatial econometric model. There are a lot of results available in a time series context, which form a very well structured phase, but little has been said when the domain of the model is the Space in relation to this question. There are...