It is widely recognized that most economic activities show a tendency to agglomerate in space and, therefore, economic interactions among firms are likely to be influenced by their geographical proximity. Recently, the literature (Boschma, 2005) has remarked that other dimensions of proximity...

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>As Europe is currently characterized by huge disparities in the economic performance of “old” and “new” states, we investigate whether this is the result of local agglomeration—specialization and diversity—externalities. Our spatial econometric analysis focuses...</p>

In recent years there has been a considerable development in modelling nonlinearities and asymmetries in economic and financial variables. The aim of the current paper is to compare the forecasting performance of different models for the returns of three of the most traded exchange rates in...

type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>Este artículo analiza el impacto del turismo nacional e internacional en el proceso de crecimiento económico para 179 regiones europeas. El análisis econométrico se basa en un marco de regresión de crecimiento espacial en el que la tasa del PIB per cápita...</p>

Firms productivity is crucially influenced by knowledge spillovers generated either by other firms located nearby or by direct contacts with consumers or by foreign demand in the case of traded products. In this paper we propose a new channel of efficiency-enhancing knowledge diffusion, which...

D ettori B., M arrocu E. and P aci R. Total factor productivity, intangible assets and spatial dependence in the European regions, Regional Studies . The aim of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the efficiency levels across the European regions. Firstly, a regression-based measure of...