We compare the spatial agglomeration of banks’ branches in Italy across local areas (as identified by local labor market areas) to that of other services. Banks branches appear to be only weakly spatially agglomerated, their spatial distribution being similar to that of other services and to...

Die wohnortnahe Verfügbarkeit ambulanter Pflegedienste und von Tagespflegeeinrichtungen in Deutschland, die Pflegeleistungen gemäß des Elften Buch Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB XI) anbieten, ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Daseinsvorsorge in ländlichen Räumen und zugleich Voraussetzung dafür,...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, welchen Beitrag die sogenannten Konvergenzregressionen einerseits und die Schätzungen von Markov-Ketten andererseits zur Klärung der Frage leisten können, ob die regionalen Pro-Kopf-Einkommen in Westdeutschland seit Mitte der siebziger Jahre konvergiert oder...

In this paper, we use the Stock and Watson methodology to estimate economic coincident indexes for each of the twenty-four Argentine provinces. We extract business cycle components from these indexes using the Christiano-Fitzgerald filter and then we group Argentine provinces into regions...

The paper analyzes the role of the manufacturing industry as an economic development vector from the perspective of the integration of Romania into the European Union, on the basis of a structural breakdown following specific criteria that take into account the use of resources, the...

There is strong evidence showing that in most countries cities develop sequentially, with the initially largest city being the first to grow. This paper presents a growth model of optimal city size that rationalizes this particular growth pattern. Increasing returns to scale is the force that...

This paper analyses the evolution of the size distribution of the stock of emigrants in the period 1960-2000. Has the distribution of the stock of emigrants changed or has there been some convergence? This is the question discussed in this work. In particular, we are interested in testing the...

As of the fourth quarter of 2005, 76 percent of white non-Hispanic families owned homes, but only 50 percent of Hispanic families. We argue that low rates of homeownership in Hispanic communities create a self-reinforcing mechanism that contributes to this large disparity. In part, this occurs...

This paper develops a simulation model of the behaviour of clusters in the face of bifurcation events in their environment. Bifurcations are understood as the regional equivalent to Schumpeterian creative destruction. The model investigates the role of decentralisation and co-ordination for the...