This paper evaluates the economic impact of petroleum-refining production worldwide. The analysis, which is based on an inter-regional input-output model of the world economy, quantifies the gross production that should be attributed to the refining sector at both country and global levels. We...

Durante los años 90 se llevó a cabo un intenso programa de construcción de carreteras de alta capacidad en la red viaria española, lo que se tradujo en una sustancial mejora de la accesibilidad de los municipios. El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar si esta mayor accesibilidad ha tenido...

The aim of this article is to show the main determinants of industrial location processes. To better illustrate phenomena such as agglomeration economies, which are normally studied at the regional level, we use local data. We use the Poisson model to identify the location patterns of firms. Our...