At the end of the century the world has seen important changes in production and distribution systems challenging competence of national economies. Increasing flows of capital and trade among countries, combined with important developments in telecommunications, have pushed towards new...

This paper aims to develop a new spatial economic model for analyzing information flow between head and branch offices. The hierarchy between head and branch offices is modeled, and a way of treating information flow is proposed. Broadband Internet enables both home and office to send and...

GEOX is a computer package of Splus and Matlab routines implementing interactive graphics methods for exploring spatial data. We analyse a large data basis from the regional public health insurance agency concerning physicians'' activity in the Midi-Pyrénées region. We evaluate in particular...

The matching function that postulates a relationship between the flow of new matches and stock of job seekers and vacancies has attracted considerable attention, both theoretical and empirical during the last decade. In this paper the properties of a matching function are examined by using a...

The growing interest on the economic geography issues has provided new vigour to the research efforts aiming at explaining economic phenomena without neglecting space. In particular several studies have focused on the role of spatially bounded externalities on firms agglomeration processes at...

Cultural reproduction is one of the main prerogatives to determine behavioural interaction between immigrants and their host environment. And in turn, cultural reproduction mainly develops within a framework of urban conditions, policies and substructures aimed to provide for residence, mobility...

The study of possible asymmetric effects of monetary policy at a spatially disaggregated scale has recently received renewed attention in the literature due to the introduction of EMU. To quantify the differences in monetary policy transmission different econometric approaches have been...

The development of tourism activities in Greece has met a significant growth rate over the last two decades. At the same time, tourism facilities were developed in regions, which did not constitute traditional tourism destinations, thus changing the pattern of the regional allocation of tourism...