• 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 ...
    • Market potential and the curse of distance in European regions 

      Bruna, Fernando; Faíña, José Andrés; López-Rodríguez, Jesús (University Library of Munich, 2014-06)
      [Abstract] In the context of the New Economic Geography (NEG) wage equation, the ‘curse of distance’ is the tendency of peripheral regions to have lower income because of being far from the main markets, as captured by a ...
    • Market potential: the measurement of domestic market size 

      Bruna, Fernando (Springer, 2024)
      [Abstract]: Influenced by the concept of the strength of a force in physics, access to markets has since the 1940s been evaluated by indicators of ‘potential’, measured as a sum of a distance-weighted of population or ...