Patricio Aroca

Andrés Bello University | UNAB

In 2024, Resources Policy reaches its 50th anniversary as a journal. Fifty years leading the field of mineral and fossil fuel policies and economic research worldwide. Considering this special milestone, we provide a forward-looking view in this paper, highlighting seven areas we believe are critical for robust research that Resources Policy should...

This study introduces an innovative approach for conceptualising and measuring frustration and resentment in political contexts. Utilising the classic Gamson’s Hypothesis, frustration is defined as the gap between internal and external political eZicacy, measured through structural equation modelling. By distinguishing between flow and stock variab...

Este trabajo analiza el Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Regional (FNDR), principal instrumento de la política de desarrollo y compensación territorial en Chile. Se identifican tres problemas de diseño que dificultan el cumplimiento de su propósito. Primero, los criterios de distribución centralizan la inversión en regiones con mayor concentración demo...

This paper examines the role of spatial and political factors in the allocation of discretionary public goods, contributing notably to the study of distributive politics in two ways. First, the concept of proximity is redefined by incorporating a political dimension into the spatial neighborhood matrix, thus extending traditional method- ologies of...

Political discontent, frequently mirrored in voting patterns, extends beyond ballot votes. By focusing on Valparaiso, Chile, we introduce a more comprehensive measure, external political efficacy (EPE), capturing a sense of abandonment and gauging public sentiment towards the political system’s responsiveness to their needs. Our analysis addresses...

Political discontent, frequently mirrored in voting patterns, extends beyond ballot votes. By focusing on Valparaiso, Chile, we introduce a more comprehensive measure—external political efficacy (EPE)—capturing a sense of abandonment and gauging public sentiment towards the political system's responsiveness to their needs. Our analysis addresses in...

This paper aims to analyse the spatial interaction of Romanian Cities from 1948 to 2021 trying to perceive if, along seven decades of quite different political regimes – from Central Planning to Market Interaction–, there have been changes in the logic of spatial interaction between City Regions. The study looks into the economic-demographic evolut...

We use the case of Chile to analyze the effectiveness of a spatially blind employment relief program (hereafter referred to as the LPE program) established by the Chilean government and implemented during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Chile is an interesting case because on the one hand its nonpharmaceutical interventions were spatially driven by health i...

Climate change and its effects are one of the main concerns of both administrations and citizens in many countries. One of the most important causes of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions, especially CO2, and its reduction is a target for governments around the world. In this sense, the article aims to measure the regional imbalances in CO2...

Roger Stough contributed significantly to regional science development, with a prolific scientific productions, with a long stint as editor of The Annals of Regional Science, with his leadership as President of the Regional Science Association International, and displaying an undying dedication to serve, generous with his time, mentoring countless...

This work analyzes the relationship between social media use and the development of internal and external political efficacy, using five 1,650-person polls conducted in 2017–2021 in the 10 most populated municipalities of in the Valparaiso Region in Chile, a country characterized by high levels of political discontent and social protests, especiall...

Libro de la Comisión Desafíos del Futuro, Ciencia, tecnología e Innovación del Senado de la República de Chile 2018-2022 https://www.bcn.cl/publicaciones/ediciones-bcn/detalle_libro?id=10221.1/85083

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 paper aims analysis spatial interaction of Romanian Cities from 1948 until 2021 trying to perceive if along seven decades of quite different political regimes – from Central Planning to Market Interaction– there have been changes in the features of spatial interaction. The analysis looks into the economic-demographic evolution of Romanian city...

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...

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...

In this book, the dynamics of continuity and change in the regional economic development of Mexico and the US border states are analyzed. These studies cover the last 25 years, after the first trade agreement, between a developed and a developing country, tooks place, and where international trade and investment have been combined with a set of rel...

Mediante un modelamiento de insumo-producto para medir sensibilidades y cambios estructurales de la producción, este estudio analiza cómo han evolucionado éstos en la economía chilena, y, en especial, la importancia que tiene el sector de la minería del cobre en este proceso. La información utilizada proviene de la Organización para la Cooperación...

Recent works have coined the term Online Political Efficacy (OPE) to assess the impact of Internet use on the perceived political empowerment of citizens. As the classic concept of political efficacy distinguishes between internal (IPE) and external (EPE) efficacies, we seek to confirm the usefulness of a new indicator of political efficacy for onl...

As mining activity generally occurs far away from metropolitan areas, governments tend to forget the problems that communities in mining regions face. Centralized government systems and, more importantly, a lack of a robust understanding of the effects of mining impacts on communities and regions, explain in part the lag of development in mining re...

In this book, the dynamics of continuity and change in the regional economic development of Mexico and the US border states are analyzed. These studies cover the last 25 years, after the first trade agreement, between a developed and a developing country, tooks place, and where international trade and investment have been combined with a set of rel...

1. Actualmente existe en los gobiernos regionales una excesiva ejecución de proyectos pequeños que no resuelven los problemas estratégicos de las regiones, debido a problemas de información y falta de capacidad de diseño. Por esta razón, se propone reducir los niveles de incertidumbre sobre costos y tiempos de ejecución de los proyectos, a través d...

The Internet has been often described as a tool that fosters the inclusion of traditionally marginalized people in the democratic process. Yet, if the type of device used by people to access the Internet impacts their online democratic engagement, uneven Internet penetration and differences in the devices used by social groups will result in a deep...

The Internet has been often described as a tool that fosters the inclusion of traditionally marginalized people in the democratic process. Yet, if the type of device used by people to access the Internet impacts their online democratic engagement, uneven Internet penetration and differences in the devices used by social groups will result in a deep...

Reflexiones sobre el proceso de descentralización en Chile, a partir de la nueva legislación que permite la elección de gobernadores regionales y transfiere un conjunto de competencias a los nuevos ejecutivos regionales. La diferencia entre las expectativas generadas por el proceso versus lo que realmente podrán hacer las nuevas autoridades podría...

Short-term climate conditions may affect crop yields and vintage quality and, as a consequence, wine prices and vineyards’ earnings. In this paper, we use a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for Chile, which incorporates very detailed information about the value chain of the wine sector in the country. Using information for the 2015-2016 h...

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...

This paper examines the business cycle co‐movement in Mexican states over the period 2000–2014 by estimating an extended gravitational panel data model. Two different detrending filters are used to check the robustness of our results. The estimates suggest that the co‐movement increases as the size of the states’ economies does so as well as with t...

This research begins with the following questions: Is there consistency between the identification of development and the economic structure that is possessed?; are there similarities among economies identified with differences in their levels of development?; and, are there non-developed economies with the same structure as that of developed econo...

Esta investigación se inicia con las siguientes interrogantes: ¿existe consistencia entre la identificación de desarrollo y la estructura económica que se posee?; ¿existen parecidos entre economías identificadas con distintos niveles de desarrollo?; y ¿existen economías no desarrolladas con la estructura de una que lo es? Para responder a ellas, se...

This paper investigates the hypothesis that the spatial concentration of economic activity might impair national growth, using the experiences of Brazil and Chile. In the first stage we have used regional data to estimate country-specific models in which regional growth is conditioned by a set of controls, considering population density as a measur...

Utilizando las tablas insumo-producto de la OCDE, distribuidas en tres periodos de tiempo: próximas a los años 1995, 2000 y 2005, se establece como objetivo analizar la evolución de las estructuras de dichas economías y de sus sectores, así como comprobar si existen semejanzas estructurales entre ellas en función de su producto interior bruto (PIB)...

The aim of this paper is to identify the explaining factors of the synchronization of the business cycles of the Mexican states and those of the US economy. The cycle indicator is obtained by de-trending the series of total formal employment (Mexican states) and nonfarm employment and industrial production (US). In general, our panel data model est...

Globalization involves South Asia, a group of migrant poor and nearby nations that send migrants to rich countries in the western world, to dependent countries in the Golf Area and to emerging economies in Asia, which development influences the way we sea and react to migration. The aim of the paper is to understand the impact of institutional barr...

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...

This article decomposes total factor productivity (TFP) by economic sector, using data from the Chilean economy's input-output matrices for 1996, 2003 and 2010. The analysis focuses on the effects of changes in three areas: sectoral demand; the production mix and cross-sectoral transactions; and technological change. It finds that the latter two ar...

This paper integrates the empirical literature attempting to measure quality of life with different philosophical, economic and psychological approaches that shed some light on the contours of the concept. On this basis, we suggest quality of life is composed of multiple dimensions of value that are not reducible to a single teleological measure as...

This paper develops a methodology using business intelligence (data warehouse) and OLAP tools (Online Analytical Processing) to match individuals from a household survey data to a census one. In order to geo-reference the household data, the method takes advantage of the geographical information of the census. Using the 2003 Household Survey and th...

From March 2017 a new team assumed the editorial responsibility of Regional Science Policy and Practice. An excellent editorial group and a global and experienced editorial board that – with authors, referees and readers – can build on the work done by Michael Carroll and his group of collaborators and mobilize the good support of our publisher and...

This research begins with the following questions: Is there consistency between the identification of development and the economic structure it possesses?; Are there similarities between the economies identified with differences in their levels of development?; and, are there non-developed economies with the same structure of developed economies? T...

Tourism statistics are key sources of information for economic planners, tourism researchers, and operators. Still, several cases of data inadequacy and inaccuracy are reported in literature. The aim of this article is to propose a methodology useful to improve tourism statistics: a modified version of the Coarsened Exact Matching. The methodologic...

The functional coherence of the productive system associated to the Puyehue National Park (Chilean North Patagonia) is analyzed, in order to evaluate if the changes in the economic structure of the main centers of the regions: Los Rios (Valdivia) and Los Lagos (Osorno y Puerto Montt) in the years 2007 and 2012 era promoting the park development. Fi...

RESUMEN Este artículo analiza, desde una perspectiva económica, el impacto de los servicios de educación en Arica, Valdivia y Punta Arenas. Utilizando tablas input-output para los años 2007 y 2012, elaboradas a 25 actividades y productos, la investigación estima el aporte de la educación desde la perspectiva de los multiplicadores externos, de auto...

This article analyzes from an economic perspective the impact of educational services in Arica, Valdivia and Punta Arenas cities. Using input-output tables, elaborated for 25 activities and products for the period from 2007 to 2012, the research estimates the contribution of Education from the perspective of external multipliers, subsistence and in...

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In regions whose industrial structure is organized around one or more large firm corporations, the best practices of small and medium enterprises depend on where firms are located in the supply chain. This paper studies 351 small and medium enterprises in the Antofagasta Region in Chile between 2007 and 2008, where multinational and public mining c...

Spatial concentration in Latin America, especially in the southern cone, reaches high levels in all dimensions. Despite significant economic growth in the last two decades, trade openness, the return to democratic regimes and reductions in the Gini coefficients the primacy indexes of most Latin American countries remain relatively constant and amon...

En este trabajo se presenta el desarrollo de una solución de Inteligencia de Negocios para gestionar el gran volumen de datos generados a partir de dos instrumentos de recolección, como lo son el censo nacional de personas, hogares y viviendas y la encuesta de hogares (CASEN); con el objetivo de desarrollar una plataforma de gestión de bases de dat...

Tourism statistics are key sources of information for economic planners, tourism researchers and operators. Still, several cases of data inadequacy and inaccuracy are reported in literature. The aim of this paper is to propose a methodology useful to improve tourism statistics: a modified version of the Coarsened Exact Matching. The methodological...

In regions whose industrial structure is organized around one or more large firm corporations, the best practices of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) depend on where firms are located in the supply chain. This paper studies 351 SMEs in the Antofagasta Region in Chile between 2007 and 2008, where multinational and public mining companies are the...

The present work has its base in the Exploratory Analysis of Space Data (EASD); taking as starting point the group of instruments that describe diagram of associations (space autocorrelation) and suggest structures in the geographical space (space heterogeneity): all that which allows a scientific visualization to detect the main space effects. The...

An important share of Chilean copper production is located in two regions: Antofagasta and Atacama. In recent years there has been a rise in the price of copper, and the incomes of the inhabitants of these regions have varied differently as a response to the variations in the price of copper. This article analyzes these differences between the evol...

An important share of Chilean copper production is located in two regions: Antofagasta and Atacama. In recent years there has been a rise in the price of copper, and the incomes of the inhabitants of these regions have varied differently as a response to the variations in the price of copper. This article analyzes these differences between the evol...

In this paper, we propose a solution development of Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems (SIG) to an integrated management of information generated from Census of population, households and dwellings, and the Survey of Economic and Social Classification (CASEN). This, as an alternative to current methods in small area estimation...

The contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage of seven individual countries; and comparative analys...

There have been relatively few attempts to develop operational models explicitly designed to measure endogenous regional economic performance and to identify those factors that potentially might explain spatial variations in that performance across a national space economy. This chapter does that by experimenting with structural equation modelling...

First English language book on regional policies in Latin America Written by renowned Latin American academics and experts Offers arguments to better understand pressing issues such as regional disparities and the increasing weight of metropolitan areas This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of r...

La concentración en el centro del país ha alcanzado límites que podrían estar afectando negativamente el crecimiento de la nación, sin embargo la falta de información, no permite una a rmación de nitiva al respecto. Este trabajo pretende contribuir a esta discusión, contrastando la hipótesis de que al menos las dos regiones extremas del país; Magal...

The concentration around the core of country has reached a level that might be hurting the growth of the economy. However, there is not enough information that allow to make a definitive statement about it most peripheral regions: Magallanes and Arica, have productive structures significantly different from national one, which call for complementar...

Despite urbanization and recent development, many Latin American countries, such as Chile, Peru, Uruguay and Argentina, still maintain very high levels of urban primacy (United Nations 2012). Most studies about the region have analyzed economic and social problems derived from the existence of urban giants but have not considered in which ways urba...

The quantity and quality of the research and publications on Latin American nations’ territorial problems and policies have increased substantially over the past decade. However, the fact that the majority of the studies that have been conducted have been published in Spanish and Portuguese has limited their dissemination to the countries in which...

In their book on regional inequalities in small nations, Felsenstein and Portnov (2005) state that during a seminar held at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1957, Simon Kuznets argued that small nations had had more success than larger ones with distributing the fruits of growth among their inhabitants. In order to make this claim, he compared Sca...

The evolution of the population distribution in the territories within countries of Latin America, in the last decades, is showing a heterogeneous path, while some countries have growing concentration around the main city or cities; others display an inverse pattern. Same situation are find in processes like aging, urbanization among others. Severa...

From the perspective of results in terms of growth as a whole, Latin America and particularly some countries of the continent are experiencing an economic stage that could be described as fairly pleasant. There are, of course, differences among countries, but several of them have reported GDP growth rates of over 4 % in real terms since 2000. The i...

Statistics that accurately represent the evolution of tourism activity are needed for tourism research and planning. Monthly accommodation statistics provided by the Chilean Statistical Institute show a negative trend despite considerable growth in the number of foreign visitors. This paper proposes a methodology to create sample weights to overcom...

This paper estimates the Urban Wage Premium for the Chilean case, but proposing three contributions to the literature. First, the geographical space is reconfigured using functional regions instead administrative regions. This process is carried out using techniques from the spatial econometric literature. Second, we exploit the use of micro data....

An input-output matrix is like an x-ray of the productive system of an economy that shows the health of the fundamentals and survey the economic activity developed during a year. Soza-Amigo et al (2010 and 2012) estimated Punta Arenas county input-output matrices for the years 2003 and 2007. Based on that estimation, this paper presents the economi...

Una matriz de insumo-producto es como una radiografía del sistema productivo de una economía que resume los fundamentos y la actividad económica ocurrida durante un año. Soza-Amigo et al en 2010 y 2012, estimaron las matrices de insumo-producto de la Comuna de Punta Arenas para los años 2003 y 2007. Basados en estas estimaciones, este trabajo prese...

Inflation has been constantly studied at national level because its negative effects over the economy, however this problem has generally been ignored at regional scale, mainly because the assumption that regions have a homogeneous inflation behavior. Expanding the Paredes and Aroca (2008) methodology to the temporal dimension and using National St...

Diferentes trabajos señalan que, según la superficie de Chile y el nivel de desarrollo que ha alcanzado, la concentración de la actividad y población en la Región Metropolitana resulta excesiva. Además, durante las dos últimas décadas, la desigualdad espacial ha aumentado en el país, situación que podría afectar negativamente su crecimiento y que h...

Different studies show that, given the size of Chile and its level of development, there is an excess of concentration of population and activity in the Metropolitan Region. Furthermore, during the past two decades, spatial inequality has increased in Chile. This situation could negatively affect national growth, something that has been systematica...

RESUMEN La inflación ha sido permanentemente estudiada en Chile por sus efectos negativos en la economía; sin embargo su investigación es escasa por región, porque ha pri-mado el supuesto de que las economías regionales tienen un comportamiento ho-mogéneo respecto a la inflación. Extendiendo la metodología de Paredes y Aroca (2008) al plano tempora...

Punta Arenas es una comuna ubicada en el extremo sur de Chile, cuya economía se basa en la producción de dos materias primas (commodities): petróleo y metanol. En este contexto, el objetivo principal de este artículo es estimar el impacto de estas materias primas sobre la producción, el ingreso y el empleo de la comuna, en donde la importancia rela...