The objective of the research is to know the factors that in Spain determine the choice of banking organization. The obtained results indicate that the dimension of the network of branches is the reason more valued. In spite of the increasing symmetry of the Spanish banking market, the preferences of...

In this paper, we examine the relationship between the stock of human capital and productivity in the Spanish regions (NUTS III), and assess whether the transmission channel involves external economies. The empirical evidence points to a positive relationship between the two variables, although it cannot be explained in terms of...

When a major technological innovation spreads out in both high-tech and middle/low-tech industries, new clusters appear, develop and grow at the expenses of “older” historical industrial sites. The literature has, under various labels, recognised three main stages of cluster development: an initial stage sparked by an initial exogenous, shock; a...

Este trabajo cuantifica, en primer lugar, la movilidad intergeneracional de ingresos en España para los años 1980 y 1990. Dicha movilidad se interpreta como la correlación de la transmisión de ingresos de una generación a la siguiente. Los resultados muestran que la movilidad de ingresos incrementó durante la década del...

The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamics of growth and convergence in Spain for the period 1965-1995. We analyse the evolution of the per capita income distribution across Spanish provinces and estimate the e®ects on this evolution of factors such as private, human and public capital, and...

El objetivo de este artículo es buscar nuevas evidencias sobre la eficiencia del apoyo público a la I+D empresarial mediante un análisis sectorial con datos de panel para el caso de España. Tras presentar la evidencia empírica tanto nacional como internacional sobre los efectos del apoyo público a la financiación...