RESUMEN<br> <br> Se analizan algunas dimensiones más elementales de la nueva política regional comunitaria diseñada a partir de la Agenda 2000. Tras apuntar los precedentes en que se apoya, se definen sus grandes líneas (financiación y objetivos generales), se hace una valoración de las nuevas...

RESUMEN<br> <br> Ya desde comienzos de la década de los ochenta, se vino operando una modificación de los principales parámetros de la política forestal andaluza, en el sentido de una vinculación cada vez más estrecha entre ella y la política de conservación de la naturaleza. Dicho proceso, que...

Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

We investigate in this paper local development at the level of the french local entities called EPCI (Etablissement Public de Coopération Intercommunale), which gather different city councils of the French region Basse-Normandie. Sets of socio-economic and fiscal variables allow us to...

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to policies with a combination of modified residential choice and political choice of tax levels. The highly stylized decision models of most existing analyses, however, lead to...

Empirical evidence suggesting that a considerable amount of horizontal strategic interaction exists amongst governments is important in light of recent devolutionary trends of many important public programs. The empirical approach in these studies typically relies on estimating reaction...

One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's own size, as well as cost linkages between producers and suppliers of inputs. Productivity links...