• A generalized NEG wage-type equation 

      Bruna, Fernando (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015-10-01)
      [Abstract]: This chapter discusses several controversial issues of the New Economic Geography (NEG) theory, focusing on some problems of interpretation regarding the estimation results of a wage equation. In order to do ...
    • Income disparities in Colombia: Market potential and neighborhood effects 

      López-Rodríguez, Jesús; Vasquez-Roldan, Julian S. (Routledge/Francis & Taylor, 2020)
      [Abstract]: Market potential has been shown to have an important impact on the explanation of observed income disparities both across countries and across regions within countries. However, the importance of neighbourhood ...
    • The “fractal dimension” of the market potential-human capital relation 

      López-Rodríguez, Jesús; Manso Fernández, Guillermo; Barreiro Viñán, José Manuel (Routledge/Francis & Taylor, 2021)
      [Abstract]: The empirical analysis of the impact of market potential on the spatial distribution of human capital has often taken the approach of using samples of large economic areas (world sample of countries, Europe, ...
    • Why do empirical tests tend to accept the NEG?- An alternative approach to the 'wage equation' in European regions 

      Bruna, Fernando (Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas Internacionales (AEEFI), 2015-10)
      [Abstract]This paper posits a new approach to the ‘wage equation’ of the New Economic Geography (NEG) stressing the uncertain interpretation of its empirical results. It emphasizes the generality of the variable to be ...