Coro Chasco

Autonomous University of Madrid | UAM · Departamento de Economía Aplicada: UDI de Econometría e Informática

Air quality is one of the major concerns in big cities. It is therefore of interest to evaluate properly air pollution. Specifically, this paper aims at measuring how air quality is incorporated in transaction prices in downtown Madrid. For that purpose, we use multilevel models since our sample is hierarchically organized into 3 levels. Our first-...

We investigate the relative impact of geographic features on the location of production in the European Union. Specifically, we attempt to quantify how much of the spatial pattern of GDP can be attributed to exogenous first-nature elements alone and how much can be derived from endogenous second-nature factors. In order to disentangle both effects...

We propose a scan test for the presence of spatial groupwise heteroskedasticity in cross-sectional data. The scan approach has been used in different fields before, including spatial econometric models, to detect instability in mean values of variables or regression residuals. In this paper, we extend its use to second order moments. Using large Mo...

We apply spatio-temporal scan statistics on the distributions of asking price per meter squared for various segments of the housing market (attics, houses, flats of various sizes) in the city of Madrid for 5 years during the period 2008–2019. Our application shows how spatio-temporal scan statistics can be useful for assessing the dynamics of urban...

This paper presents a methodological procedure to evaluate the influence of spatial proximity on evolution of cities to detect regional differences in their spatiotemporal dynamics. The six-step method based on a set of statistical methods can be computed with a new R package: estdaR. The first step consists of the usual characterization of the cro...

Accessing massive datasets can be challenging for users unfamiliar with programming codes. Combining Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME) and MySQL tools on standard configuration equipment allows for addressing this issue. This research proposal aims to present a methodology that describes the necessary configuration steps in both tools and the requ...

Climate change represents not solely a global environmental challenge but also a matter of social justice, exacerbating existing inequalities and spanning disparities between underprivileged populations and developed nations. Sustainable patents or “green patents” protect inventions that contribute to environmental sustainability, such as clean ene...

This paper studies the relationship between environmental quality and social welfare in local (urban and rural) areas. Based on a database of municipality indicators for the Spanish region of Extremadura, we find clear evidence of interconnection and compatibility between ecological and social welfare concerns. We apply distance-based objective ind...

This paper introduces the spatial component in cross-section econometric estimations and specifically, the spatial dependence effect inherent in some of the variables involved in the modelling process. First, the spatial structure of the data from thematic maps is observed and Moran's spatial autocorrelation indicators are presented. Subsequently,...

El papel de los costes de transporte de bienes agrícolas en los modelos centro-periferia ha sido normalmente ignorado en la literatura de la Nueva Geografía Económica (NGE). Esto se debe a la convención de tratar el bien agrícola como una constante, asumiendo un valor nulo de los costes de transporte agrícola en estos modelos. El objetivo de este c...

The objective of this study is to understand the role of the multidimensional trust of a luxury brand as an antecedent of consumer satisfaction and a consequence of reputation and familiarity, considering -in turn- that reputation and familiarity can be a consequence of the consumer’s cognitive and affective experiences. A cross-country analysis in...

The State of Rio de Janeiro is a very peculiar territory, and despite presenting unique natural beauties, it has several favourable ingredients for extreme climatic phenomena, including the characteristics that part of its population lives in subnormal households (“favelas”) on hillsides. In recent years the number of climatic events with catastrop...

This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 18(2) (2023). The first paper extends the Solow–Swan growth model with spatial dependence, pollution and time delay. The second paper investigates the (mis)match between relative factor costs and the output elasticities of production factors due to innovations in the European Union’s Smart Specialisatio...

This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 18(1) (2023). The first paper sets out a game-theoretic duopolistic spatial model to investigate whether online retailing causes more transportation-related emissions than offline retailing. The second paper proposes a methodology for statistically downscaling projected gross domestic product (GDP). The...

This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 17(4) (2022). The first paper combines input–output modelling with priority weighting to analyse supply-chain impacts of disasters. The second paper examines skill-based functional specialization of value chains in Brazil using interregional and international value-added measures. The third paper questi...

Concept and measurement of social welfare with objective indicators. Quality of life is a complex concept involving various socioeconomic domains, some of which can be measured objectively (e.g., income level, access to health services, educational level) whereas others are more a matter of people’s subjective evaluations of happiness, health, or s...

This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 17(3) (2022). The first paper analyses the impact of knowledge spillovers on patent applications using a Tobit model. The second paper sets out an economic-theoretical model of industrial specialization patterns across cities and their impact on the spatial agglomeration of skilled workers and...

The internal characteristics of dwellings and their level of accessibility to basic services have traditionally been the main variables in establishing their level of quality; however, in large cities, problems associated with traffic and environmental quality are becoming increasingly important because of their impact on people's quality of life....

This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 17(2) (2022). The first paper evaluates logistic regression and machine-learning methods for predicting firm bankruptcy. The second paper demonstrates that machine learning outperforms existing tools to improve the estimation of regional input–output tables. The third paper investigates whethe...

We utilized all Spanish marriage records available at the municipality level from 2005–2007 to model spatial variations in intermarriage. We constructed a spatial regime zero-inflated Poisson model and grouped-data probit model, with spatially lagged regressors, to predict the absolute and relative presence of intermarriage between Spaniards and mi...

We utilized all Spanish marriage records available at the municipality level from 2005-2007 to model spatial variations in intermarriage. We constructed a spatial regime zero inflated Poisson model and grouped-data probit model, with spatially lagged regressors, to predict the absolute and relative presence of intermarriage between Spaniards and mi...

We utilized all Spanish marriage records available at the municipality level from 2005-2007 to model spatial variations in intermarriage. We constructed a spatial regime zero inflated Poisson model and grouped-data probit model, with spatially lagged regressors, to predict the absolute and relative presence of intermarriage between Spaniards and mi...

Dataset accompanying the publication "A Well-Being Index for Housing in the Central Districts of Madrid, Spain" (Journal of Urban Planning and Development 2022, 148-2). The internal characteristics of dwellings and their level of accessibility to basic services have traditionally been the main variables in establishing their level of quality; howev...

This study contributes to the debate on accessibility of higher education in Chile, with a special focus on the geospatial dimension of access to university studies. This paper addresses the central question of whether geography (physical distance and neighborhood effects) plays a significant role in determining the accessibility of higher educatio...

This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 17(1) (2022). This issue begins with a second editorial calling on researchers to publish replication results from previous studies. The first paper applies a spatiotemporal Bayesian hierarchical model for understanding the dynamics of second home ownership in Corsica. The second paper determi...

This study contributes to the debate on accessibility of higher education in Chile, focusing on both socioeconomic and geospatial dimensions of access to university study. The central question we address in this paper is the following: Does geography (physical distance and neighborhood effects) play a significant role in determining accessibility o...

The role of agricultural transport costs in core-periphery structures has habitually been ignored in New Economic Geography (NEG) models. This is due to the convention of treating the agricultural good as the numéraire, thus implying that agricultural transportation costs are assumed to be zero in these models. For more than three decades, this has...

This study contributes to the debate on accessibility of higher education in Chile, focusing on both socioeconomic and geospatial dimensions of access to university study. The central question we address in this paper is the following: Does geography (physical distance and neighborhood effects) play a significant role in determining accessibility o...

The role of agricultural transport costs in core-periphery structures has habitually been ignored in New Economic Geography (NEG) models. This is due to the convention of treating the agricultural good as the numéraire, thus implying that agricultural transportation costs are assumed to be zero in these models. For more than three decades, this has...

This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 16(4) (2021). The first paper adopts a higher order spatial autoregressive model with endogenous spatial weight matrices. The second paper investigates the existence of the law of one price using regional observations over time. The third paper develops an economic-theoretical model that goes...

La vecindad geográfica siempre se ha considerado como un factor de transmisión muy importante, no sólo para las infecciones víricas, sino también para la economía, la cultura y las ideas. En efecto, las ideas se “contagian” entre países vecinos como un virus a través de los trayectos diarios transfronterizos, las migraciones y los acuerdos político...

This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 16(3) (2021) in order to raise the bar in applied spatial economic research and highlight new trends and knowledge. The first paper analyses the economic consequences of the rise and spread of the Covid-19 virus in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The second paper presents a multi-regional ge...

This paper studies the existence of spatial diffusion of civil liberty among neighboring countries. For that purpose, we first combine different exploratory space-time data analysis approaches to find that this phenomenon is spatially clustered and that a convergence process is at work among the world countries from 1985 to 2010, with a structural...

The role of agricultural transport costs in core-periphery models has habitually been ignored in New Economic Geography (NEG) models. This is due to the convention of treating the agricultural good as the numéraire, thus implying that agricultural transportation costs are assumed to be zero in these models. This conceptual drawback is however essen...

This editorial summarises the papers published in issue 15.4 in order to raise the bar in applied spatial economic research and highlight new trends and knowledge. The first paper challenges the standard notion that more growth is better. The second paper challenges macroeconomic models by looking at them from a regional micro-grounded lens, where...

¿Cuántos vehículos habría que sustituir por bicicletas para conseguir un buen nivel de calidad del aire en Madrid? Según un estudio reciente, si Madrid fuera Amsterdam, en lo que al uso de bicicletas se refiere, cumpliría de un golpe los objetivos de contaminación atmosférica fijados por el gobierno para dentro de 10 años. Para que esto suceda, el...

This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 15(2) so as to raise the bar in applied spatial economic research and highlight new trends. The first paper combines a conditionally autoregressive process from the spatial statistics literature with a spatial Durbin error model from the spatial econometrics literature. The second paper feeds...

The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial group-wise heteroskedasticity test based on the scan approach, specifically developed for spatial autocorrelation regression models (spatial lag and spatial error models): the “scan-LM test.” Based on the Lagrange multiplier (LM) principle, its main advantage lies in its comparative ease of implementati...

Since the introduction of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, available information for research purposes has increased exponentially, leading to a significant proliferation of research based on web-enabled data. Nowadays the use of internet-enabled databases, obtained by either primary data online surveys or secondary official and non-official regist...

In addition to the three special issue papers, issue 15.1 contains two papers on input-output analysis. The first paper provides a thorough analysis of the cross entropy (CE) method to build input-output tables at sub-territorial levels or to update them in time. The second paper proposes a spatial input-output location quotient accounting for the...

In this theoretical note, we propose the GProbit model as an alternative to gravity models to estimate grouped-data flows. This is a model based on the random utility theory, which is consistent with the principle of population behavior. Instead of migrant counts, the dependent variable of the GProbit model of flows consists of a number of observed...

Ha surgido un nuevo modelo económico, la ‘economía colaborativa’, que está cambiando el concepto individualista de propiedad. A través de la participación y la colaboración entre usuarios, plataformas y empresas se facilita la aparición de nuevas formas de participación en la economía y se mejora la calidad y el precio de los bienes y servicios ofe...

This editorial summarises the papers published in issue 14(4) so as to raise the bar in applied spatial economic research and highlight new trends. The first paper analyses the impact of re-exports on bilateral trade data. The second paper proposes a new measure for the popular smart specialisation index (S3). The third paper proposes a new solutio...

En la última década, el modelo bikeshare, o modelo de bicicletas compartidas, ha contribuido significativamente a la movilidad sostenible en las ciudades. Se trata de una solución de gran interés ya que, en las distancias cortas, supone un medio de transporte “puerta a puerta” que permite reducir los trayectos en coche, ofreciendo una posibilidad p...

Based on an annual historical database for South American countries from 1960 to 2008, we develop an empirical study to gain insight into the long-run determinants of economic growth using a two-equation framework. A system of two panel data models is estimated to identify the growth determinants and their connection with foreign direct investment....

No parece fácil decidir si el saldo de la contribución de Airbnb a la economía local es positivo o negativo. La combinación de la denominada “sharing economy” e Internet ofrece ventajas para el cliente, ya que puede acceder al alojamiento que cumple sus expectativas por un precio mejor y también es un beneficio para los propietarios de casas o habi...

This study presents a model in which trust in luxury brands, measured by their sales force, can be the result of these brands’ reputation and familiarity. The hypothesis proposed is that reputation and familiarity can result, on the one hand, from the consumer’s cognitive perception of the brand and, on the other, from the affective evaluation the...

This paper analyzes the current causes of differences worldwide in civil liberty, defined as the individual right to make decisions without interference within a given vital space. To this end, we employ the Civil Liberty Gastil Index from Freedom House in a spatial autoregressive model estimated from a sample of 175 countries for the year 2010. Th...

This paper focuses on civil liberty, which is defined as the individual right to make decisions without interference within a given vital space. It studies the principal factors conditioning civil liberty, one of them being the spatial contagion among neighboring countries. To this purpose, we employ the Civil Liberty Gastil index from Freedom Hous...

We are proud to guest-edit this special issue of the Journal of Geographical Systems that honors Professor Geoffrey J. D. Hewings for his prominent contributions to the field of spatial economic analysis. The special issue contains a selection of outstanding papers presented at the 12th EU-REAL Workshop, held at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid i...

En las últimas décadas, las Tecnologías de la Información y la comunicación (TIC) han sido consideradas como un elemento transformador del proceso de aprendizaje. Sin embargo, hablar de las TIC implica considerar su uso no sólo dentro del aula, sino también fuera de ella. Por ese motivo, en este trabajo se estudia de forma diferenciada el impacto q...

Trust has become a relevant component for tourists. Partly because of the novelty of the research on trust in the tourism literature, there are several open questions regarding the antecedents of trust towards a tourist destination. In this research, we suggest that reputation, and cognitive and affective evaluation of a destination are relevant an...

Los Sistemas de Información Geográfica ofrecen numerosas posibilidades en el ámbito del análisis socioeconómico, fundamentalmente en el contexto de lo que conocemos como econometría espacial. Estas posibilidades pueden ser agrupadas en dos categorías, por un lado, las que tienen que ver con el análisis exploratorio de datos espaciales (AEDE) estrec...

This paper analyzes the spatial nature of entrepreneurship at NUTSIII. Lately, academic studies are including the relation between incipient entrepreneurs and geography. In some cases, this relation is considered as unidirectional insofar as the decision to become an entrepreneur can be highly influenced by geographical location. Beyond the cultura...

We examine the local determinants of destination choices of foreign immigrants to the Madrid metro area using data for 2005 and 2009 from the Spanish annual municipal-level registers of inhabitants. Taking advantage of the equivalence relation between conditional logit and Poisson, we estimate a location-choice model using the Poisson fixed-effects...

In this paper, we apply a hedonic housing price model to estimate the willingness to pay for less air pollution and noise in the city of Madrid. Using subjective data on the perception of air pollution and noise by the Madrid residents, we apply a quantile conditionally parametric model (CPAR) that allow one to quantify the heterogeneity of these w...

In this paper, we apply a hedonic housing price model to estimate the willingness to pay for less air pollution and noise in the city of Madrid. Using subjective data on the perception of air pollution and noise by the Madrid residents, we apply a quantile conditionally parametric model (CPAR) that allow one to quantify the heterogeneity of these w...

This special issue contains a selection of many excellent papers and posters presented at the Sixth ‘Jean Paelinck’ Seminar of Spatial Econometrics, which was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in October, 2013. The collection of papers address some of the major concerns and progression lines proposed by professor Paelinck along his a...

We evaluate the usefulness of the spatial scan test in specification testing for spatial econometric models. The null hypothesis assumes equality of the mean values of a variable in all the locations of a geo-referenced data set. The alternative hypothesis relies on the existence of one (or more) spatial cluster(s) where mean values differ from tho...

Air pollution and urban noise are major concerns in big cities. This paper aims at evaluating how they impact transaction prices in the city of Madrid. For that purpose, we incorporate some measures of air pollution and noise, joint with other variables available for individual characteristics, accessibility and socio-economic data, and we use spat...

The aim of this study is to test the relationship between the functional benefit, symbolic benefit and affective evaluation as antecedent of the hedonic benefit and consequence of cognitive perception. The aim is to test the mediating effect of hedonic benefit as an antecedent of tourist satisfaction. This objective seeks to achieve through a metho...

The objective of this paper is to study the effect of official development aid (ODA) and microfinance (MF) on economic growth and compare the results. To achieve this objective, we identify and analyze the transmission mechanisms from ODA and microfinance to growth. We then study the dynamics of ODA and microfinance on growth, using an unbalanced p...

Este estudio pretende probar si la satisfacción obtenida por el turista, es consecuencia del beneficio funcional, hedónico y simbólico adquirido en el lugar. Y a su vez, probar si la satisfacción es un antecedente, para que el destino turístico le sea más familiar. A través de un análisis factorial confirmatorio (AFC), se identificaron diferentes e...

El objetivo de este estudio es probar si el beneficio simbólico obtenido por el turista es consecuencia del beneficio hedónico y funcional otorgado por el lugar; y probar si el destino turístico le es más familiar al turista a medida que mejora la percepción del beneficio simbólico obtenido en él. A través de un análisis factorial confirmatorio, se...

The objective of this study is to determine whether the symbolic benefit obtained by tourists is a consequence of the functional and hedonic benefit conferred by the place. The aim is to determine whether the tourist destination is more familiar to tourists, e.g. to what extent they have a better perception of the symbolic benefit. Different scales...

Este estudo pretende provar que a satisfação obtida pelo turista, é consequência do benefício funcional, hedônico e simbólico adquirido no local. E por sua vez, provar sim a satisfação é um antecedente, para que o destino turístico se torne mais familiar. Através de uma análise fatorial confirmatória (AFC), são identificadas diferentes escalas que...

En este trabajo se evalúa el impacto de la expansión de la empresa multinacional de alimentación Walmart sobre los salarios de los trabajadores operativos del sector minorista en México. Para determinar dicho efecto se utilizó información a nivel municipal procedente de los Censos Económicos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)...

Quality of life is a complex concept involving various socio-economic domains, some of which can be measured objectively (e.g. income level, access to health services, educational level) whereas others are more a matter of people’s subjective evaluations of happiness, health, or social relationships. The 1991 Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen defines soci...

Spatial econometrics has become a prominent topic in the recent scientific literature. For this reason, it is being used in research as well as teaching both undergraduate and graduate econometrics courses. GeoDaSpace is a software package for the estimation and testing of spatial econometric models in an intuitive and easy-to-use point and click e...