Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod
Biographic Data
| ID | 213093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josep-Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Arauzo-Carod |
| SIGNATURE | ARAUZO-CAROD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3801-223X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An unrealized desire
Knowledge might not be enough
The transition towards a sustainable energy model requires broad consensus for success. This paper analyses the role of environmental conscience, (general and specific) knowledge, and social context on the acceptance of Energy Communities (ECs) in a sample of individuals living in urban and rural Catalan municipalities with and without Energy Communities. Regression estimates show that while having an environmental conscience has direct and posit…
What determines the drivers of, and barriers to, the implementation of circular economy measures at the regional level
This article analyses regional drivers and barriers regarding the implementation of circular economy actions carried out at the European Union level. Using data from Flash Eurobarometer 498, we gather regional data on circular economy actions taken by firms in European regions in 2021. We analyse drivers and barriers from this dataset by focusing on both existent spatial heterogeneity and the perspectives of the engagement in these actions. Our r…
Sustainability, Local Environmental Behaviour and Firm Location Decisions
This paper uses Mercantile Register data to analyse the location decisions of firms in Catalan municipalities (between 2010 and 2019). Using count data panel estimations, we focus on local sustainability characteristics. The identification of the location patterns and the effects of local environmental policies on firms belonging to different sustainability industries constitute a contribution to the empirical location literature. Our results hel…
Cultural and creative industries and employment growth in urban and rural Catalonia
Cultural and creative industries and border effects
Location attributes explaining the entry of firms in creative industries
This paper focuses on creative industries and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these activities in relation to their entry decisions. We rely on employment and firm-level data in the creative industries (provided by INSEE) and compare the location of new establishments in the creative and non-creative industries between 2009 and 2013 in French departments (NUTS 3 regions). We use count data model…
Detection of geographical clustering
Creative clusters are increasingly being recognized as vital tools in the promotion of the competitiveness, innovation, urban development, and growth of cities in developed countries. This paper studies the geography of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in Barcelona (Spain) for the years 2009 and 2017. We investigate the spatial distribution of firms using the Scan methodology, which identifies the localization of clusters and assigns them …
The location patterns of audio-visual communication firms in Barcelona
This paper analyses the location patterns of audio-visual communication firms, a cultural and creative industry that includes activities related to motion picture, video, and television programme production, post-production and projection activities, as well as sound recording and music publishing activities. Firms in the industry tend to agglomerate in the core of large metropolitan areas to benefit from the economies arising from this clusterin…
Scenarios post foreclosure crisis in Catalonia
The article analyses the uneven geography of foreclosed housing owned by large private landlords in Catalonia. A Negative Binomial Model is applied to identify the local determinants of the concentration patterns of 32,941 housing units in Catalan cities. Indicators of socioeconomic vulnerability, such as the percentage of foreign population or the percentage of unemployed residents, are identified as key explanatory factors of the regional geogr…
Do software and video game firms share location patterns across cities? Evidence from Barcelona, Lyon and Hamburg
Locating Software, Video Game, and Editing Electronics Firms
This paper analyzes location patterns of software, video game, and editing electronics firms (hereafter SVE) in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona using microgeographic data. These industries are mainly attracted by agglomeration economies look to benefit from skilled labor and spillover effects, and tend to cluster in large metropolitan areas. However, less is known about their detailed location patterns inside these areas. We contribute to the …
Agglomeration of creative industries
The role of science and technology parks as firm growth boosters
The role of science and technology parks as firm growth boosters: an empirical analysis in Catalonia. Regional Studies. This paper contributes to an understanding of the role played by science and technology parks (STPs) in fostering the growth of firms. Applying a matching procedure, we obtained a database of 170 in-park firms, together with 7190 out-park firms. After applying a fixed-effects quantile regression, the results showed that being lo…
Innovation and geographical spillovers
Innovation and geographical spillovers: new approaches and empirical evidence. Regional Studies. This special issue concerns the generation of knowledge and geographical spillovers, and it includes a selection of papers that cover existent research gaps with respect to the role of space in the promotion of knowledge spillovers and innovation. These papers analyse different typologies of innovation processes carried out in several geographical are…
Regional Determinants of Exit Across Firms’ Size
We analyse the determinants of exit in a developing country using Argentina as an illustrative case. We focus on regional determinants but estimate panel count data models for firms of different size, thus indirectly controlling for a major firm‐level determinant. We find that most of the determinants used in previous studies analysing developed countries are also relevant here. The fit of the model improves, however, when variables that proxy fo…
Creative milieu and firm location
This paper focuses on the creative industries - those industries that produce and commercialise creative goods and services - and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these kinds of activities in their location decisions. Our main statistical source is the Register of Manufacturing Establishments of Catalonia (REIC), which has plant-level microdata on the location of new plants. We use count data mod…
Regional determinants of firm entry in a developing country
The Geographical Scope of Industrial Location Determinants
This paper considers the estimation of the geographical scope of industrial location determinants. While previous studies impose strong assumptions on the weighting scheme of the spatial neighbour matrix, we propose a flexible parametrisation that allows for different (distance‐based) definitions of neighbourhood and different weights to the neighbours. In particular, we estimate how far can reach indirect marginal effects and discuss how to repo…
New Insights in Industrial Location
Identifying the economic impact behind a cultural asset
(Optimal) spatial aggregation in the determinants of industrial location
Industrial Location and Spatial Dependence
Liviano D. and Arauzo-Carod J.-M. Industrial location and spatial dependence: an empirical application, Regional Studies. This paper tries to resolve some of the main shortcomings in the empirical literature on location decisions for new plants, that is, spatial effects and over-dispersion. Spatial effects are omnipresent, being a source of over-dispersion in the data as well as a factor shaping the functional relationship between the variables t…
Can a knowledge‐based cluster be created? The case of the Barcelona 22@ district
Industrial policy after the crisis
Industrial Location at the Intra-Metropolitan Level
Arauzo-Carod J.-M. and Viladecans-Marsal E. Industrial location at the intra-metropolitan level: the role of agglomeration economies, Regional Studies. The objective of this paper is to analyse the influence of agglomeration economies on location decisions taken by new firms inside metropolitan areas. As it is assumed that these economies differ according to firms' level of technology, the sample comprises new firms from high-, intermediate- and …
Determinants of industrial location
Agglomeration of creative industries
Industrial Location and Spatial Dependence
Liviano D. and Arauzo-Carod J.-M. Industrial location and spatial dependence: an empirical application, Regional Studies. This paper tries to resolve some of the main shortcomings in the empirical literature on location decisions for new plants, that is, spatial effects and over-dispersion. Spatial effects are omnipresent, being a source of over-dispersion in the data as well as a factor shaping the functional relationship between the variables t…
Innovation and geographical spillovers
Innovation and geographical spillovers: new approaches and empirical evidence. Regional Studies. This special issue concerns the generation of knowledge and geographical spillovers, and it includes a selection of papers that cover existent research gaps with respect to the role of space in the promotion of knowledge spillovers and innovation. These papers analyse different typologies of innovation processes carried out in several geographical are…
The role of science and technology parks as firm growth boosters
The role of science and technology parks as firm growth boosters: an empirical analysis in Catalonia. Regional Studies. This paper contributes to an understanding of the role played by science and technology parks (STPs) in fostering the growth of firms. Applying a matching procedure, we obtained a database of 170 in-park firms, together with 7190 out-park firms. After applying a fixed-effects quantile regression, the results showed that being lo…
Creative milieu and firm location
This paper focuses on the creative industries - those industries that produce and commercialise creative goods and services - and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these kinds of activities in their location decisions. Our main statistical source is the Register of Manufacturing Establishments of Catalonia (REIC), which has plant-level microdata on the location of new plants. We use count data mod…
Industrial Location at a Local Level
This paper contributes to the existing literature on industrial location by discussing the territorial levels that are used in location analysis. We use data for new manufacturing firms and analyse the advantages and disadvantages of performing location analyses at three levels: municipality, county and travel‐to‐work areas. We show that location determinants vary according to the territorial level used in the analysis and conclude that the level…
Regional determinants of firm entry in a developing country
Industrial policy after the crisis
Cultural and creative industries and employment growth in urban and rural Catalonia
The Geographical Scope of Industrial Location Determinants
This paper considers the estimation of the geographical scope of industrial location determinants. While previous studies impose strong assumptions on the weighting scheme of the spatial neighbour matrix, we propose a flexible parametrisation that allows for different (distance‐based) definitions of neighbourhood and different weights to the neighbours. In particular, we estimate how far can reach indirect marginal effects and discuss how to repo…
New Insights in Industrial Location
Can a knowledge‐based cluster be created? The case of the Barcelona 22@ district
Firm Size and Geographical Aggregation
Determinants of industrial location
New business formation and employment growth
Industrial Location at a Local Level
This paper contributes to the existing literature on industrial location by discussing the territorial levels that are used in location analysis. We use data for new manufacturing firms and analyse the advantages and disadvantages of performing location analyses at three levels: municipality, county and travel‐to‐work areas. We show that location determinants vary according to the territorial level used in the analysis and conclude that the level…
Empirical Studies in Industrial Location
This paper surveys recent evidence on the determinants of (national and/or foreign) industrial location. We find that the basic analytical framework has remained essentially unaltered since the early contributions of the early 1980s while, in contrast, there have been advances in the quality of the data (more firm and plant level information, geographical disaggregation, panel structure, etc.) and, to a lesser extent, the econometric modeling. We…
Industrial Location at the Intra-Metropolitan Level
Arauzo-Carod J.-M. and Viladecans-Marsal E. Industrial location at the intra-metropolitan level: the role of agglomeration economies, Regional Studies. The objective of this paper is to analyse the influence of agglomeration economies on location decisions taken by new firms inside metropolitan areas. As it is assumed that these economies differ according to firms' level of technology, the sample comprises new firms from high-, intermediate- and …
Can a knowledge‐based cluster be created? The case of the Barcelona 22@ district
Industrial policy after the crisis
Identifying the economic impact behind a cultural asset
(Optimal) spatial aggregation in the determinants of industrial location
Industrial Location and Spatial Dependence
Liviano D. and Arauzo-Carod J.-M. Industrial location and spatial dependence: an empirical application, Regional Studies. This paper tries to resolve some of the main shortcomings in the empirical literature on location decisions for new plants, that is, spatial effects and over-dispersion. Spatial effects are omnipresent, being a source of over-dispersion in the data as well as a factor shaping the functional relationship between the variables t…
The Geographical Scope of Industrial Location Determinants
This paper considers the estimation of the geographical scope of industrial location determinants. While previous studies impose strong assumptions on the weighting scheme of the spatial neighbour matrix, we propose a flexible parametrisation that allows for different (distance‐based) definitions of neighbourhood and different weights to the neighbours. In particular, we estimate how far can reach indirect marginal effects and discuss how to repo…
New Insights in Industrial Location
Regional determinants of firm entry in a developing country
Regional Determinants of Exit Across Firms’ Size
We analyse the determinants of exit in a developing country using Argentina as an illustrative case. We focus on regional determinants but estimate panel count data models for firms of different size, thus indirectly controlling for a major firm‐level determinant. We find that most of the determinants used in previous studies analysing developed countries are also relevant here. The fit of the model improves, however, when variables that proxy fo…
Creative milieu and firm location
This paper focuses on the creative industries - those industries that produce and commercialise creative goods and services - and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these kinds of activities in their location decisions. Our main statistical source is the Register of Manufacturing Establishments of Catalonia (REIC), which has plant-level microdata on the location of new plants. We use count data mod…
The role of science and technology parks as firm growth boosters
The role of science and technology parks as firm growth boosters: an empirical analysis in Catalonia. Regional Studies. This paper contributes to an understanding of the role played by science and technology parks (STPs) in fostering the growth of firms. Applying a matching procedure, we obtained a database of 170 in-park firms, together with 7190 out-park firms. After applying a fixed-effects quantile regression, the results showed that being lo…
Innovation and geographical spillovers
Innovation and geographical spillovers: new approaches and empirical evidence. Regional Studies. This special issue concerns the generation of knowledge and geographical spillovers, and it includes a selection of papers that cover existent research gaps with respect to the role of space in the promotion of knowledge spillovers and innovation. These papers analyse different typologies of innovation processes carried out in several geographical are…
Locating Software, Video Game, and Editing Electronics Firms
This paper analyzes location patterns of software, video game, and editing electronics firms (hereafter SVE) in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona using microgeographic data. These industries are mainly attracted by agglomeration economies look to benefit from skilled labor and spillover effects, and tend to cluster in large metropolitan areas. However, less is known about their detailed location patterns inside these areas. We contribute to the …
Agglomeration of creative industries
Do software and video game firms share location patterns across cities? Evidence from Barcelona, Lyon and Hamburg
The location patterns of audio-visual communication firms in Barcelona
This paper analyses the location patterns of audio-visual communication firms, a cultural and creative industry that includes activities related to motion picture, video, and television programme production, post-production and projection activities, as well as sound recording and music publishing activities. Firms in the industry tend to agglomerate in the core of large metropolitan areas to benefit from the economies arising from this clusterin…
Scenarios post foreclosure crisis in Catalonia
The article analyses the uneven geography of foreclosed housing owned by large private landlords in Catalonia. A Negative Binomial Model is applied to identify the local determinants of the concentration patterns of 32,941 housing units in Catalan cities. Indicators of socioeconomic vulnerability, such as the percentage of foreign population or the percentage of unemployed residents, are identified as key explanatory factors of the regional geogr…
Detection of geographical clustering
Creative clusters are increasingly being recognized as vital tools in the promotion of the competitiveness, innovation, urban development, and growth of cities in developed countries. This paper studies the geography of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in Barcelona (Spain) for the years 2009 and 2017. We investigate the spatial distribution of firms using the Scan methodology, which identifies the localization of clusters and assigns them …
Location attributes explaining the entry of firms in creative industries
This paper focuses on creative industries and the role played by the existing spatial distribution and agglomeration economies of these activities in relation to their entry decisions. We rely on employment and firm-level data in the creative industries (provided by INSEE) and compare the location of new establishments in the creative and non-creative industries between 2009 and 2013 in French departments (NUTS 3 regions). We use count data model…
Economics (22 works) · Economic geography (21 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (20 works) · Business (17 works) · Geography (14 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Regional science (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (12 works) · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (9 works)