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...

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...

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...

Problems associated with employment have become a major issue in regional economics, especially in those countries, such as Spain, where unemployment represents a serious threat to regional stability. In this context, the purpose of our paper is twofold: first, to develop a prediction instrument...