If voters use information about the economy to assess the competence of incumbents, a connection between economic conditions and incumbent success should only be discernable in settings where public policy might plausibly affect the economy, and where the assignment of government responsibility is relatively straightforward. Applying this logic to United States gubernatorial elections, we test ...

After the Sorbonne Declaration, the idea of a European Higher Education Area was launched, and universities have been pushed into a restructuring process with a strong emphasis on quality and excellence. In Spain, the focus on graduate employability impelled academics and professionals towards the formulation of a White Book on the state and the future of Geography in Higher Education (2004). T...

This paper investigates the impact of the heterogeneity of the labor force on the spatial distribution of activities. This goal is achieved by applying the tools of discrete choice theory to an economic geography model. We show that taste heterogeneity acts as a strong dispersion force. We also show that the relationship between the spatial distribution of the industry (the wage differential) a...

Teaching economic geography is not a matter of replicating textbook models. It requires engagement with the ever-changing global economy, which often puts the lie to existing theory. It demands that the teacher break down the economy into its major parts, in a way that students can grasp. This does not mean abandoning theory; on the contrary, it means getting beyond static exchange models to gr...

a r t i c l e i n f o We investigate the role of competitive transport markets in shaping the location of economic activity and the pattern of trade. In our model, carriers supply transport services for shipping manufactured goods, and freight rates are set to clear transport markets. Each carrier must commit to the maximum capacity for a round-trip and thus faces a logistics problem as there a...