La decisión de la localización es una de las opciones estratégicas más importantes que tienen que tomar las empresas, con influencia directa sobre su competitividad. Por este motivo, se han desarrollado numerosas metodologías que ayudan en la toma de estas decisiones. En este trabajo, se...

We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...

In this paper we study a class of evolutionary models of industrial agglomeration with local positive feedbacks, which allow for a wide set of empirically-testable implications. Their roots rest in the Generalized Polya Urn framework. Here, however, we build on a birth-death process over a...

This work explores the spatial distribution of productive activities in the Italian manufacturing industry. We propose an econometric model which tries to disentangle locationspecific from sectoral drivers in the dynamic process of spatial agglomeration. The basic idea is that the former...

We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...

This paper studies the spatial and productive adjustments of the Colombian industry during the years 1985-1998. this was a period of commercial reforms and reconversion process preceding the crisis of the end of the last century. From the point of view of the spatial economy and mainly of the...

This work explores the spatial distribution of productive activities in the Italian manufacturing industry. We propose an econometric model which tries to disentangle locationspecific from sectoral drivers in the dynamic process of spatial agglomeration. The basic idea is that the former...

<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> Este trabajo presenta una nueva metodología comparativa de valoración de activos basada en el Proceso Analítico en Red (ANP), que permite abordar contextos de escasa información, considerar variables de naturaleza cualitativa y sus interdependencias, situaciones todas muy comunes en...

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...