: This paper studies the relationship between international diversification and performance in agri-food firms In line with the recent literature, it analyses the effects of the degree of internationalization using a uniform sample, a long-term focus and a measure that combines export intensity...

: Agricultural and food products have been increasingly exchanged during the last half century. With them, water has been virtually transferred among countries. Thus, this paper studies the evolution of virtual water flows on the long term, analyzing the main factors driving them by means of a...

: The empirical classification of daily activities into luxuries, necessities, or inferior activities is useful for predicting the impact of economic development, the life cycle, or social mobility on the organization of people’s time. This paper conducts an empirical examination of three...

: El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar si es posible localizar efecto herding entre los inversores durante la reciente crisis financiera en el mercado de valores español. Partiendo de datos de frecuencia intradiaria para el periodo 2008-2009, se calcula la medida de la desviación...

Nowadays, there is an imperative for governments to be more responsive to community needs and public sector modernization programmes are introducing opportunities for citizen participation. This paper seeks to analyse the diffusion of these initiatives in local governments through the analysis...

Para evaluar la producción científica se han empleado con profusión los factores de impacto contenidos en las revistas incluidas en los Journal Citation Report (JCR). Ello no ha sido óbice para que al mismo tiempo hayan surgido numerosas advertencias sobre los peligros de su uso...

In this paper we analyse the evolution of the Spanish urban structure during the period 1900-1999. The methodology employed allows us to obtain two main results. First, that this evolution has not been homogenous, with a divergent pattern of growht being identified for the period running from...

This paper examines the intentional herd behaviour of market participants using a new bootstrap-based approach that compares the scaled cross-sectional deviation of returns in the intraday market with the cross-sectional deviation of returns of an “artificially created” market free of...

Does population follow the same inverted-U pattern of concentration/dispersion that has been found in the case of economic activity in the long run? In this paper we present the evidence for eight European countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and find that, contrary to the...

This paper analyzes a mixed duopoly with horizontal product differentiation using the unconstrained Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs. Firms play a noncooperative two-stage game on locations (first stage) and prices (second stage), and we consider that the firms move simultaneously...