%0 Journal Article 
%A Fernández Vázquez, Esteban
%A Rubiera Morollón, Fernando
%A Aponte Jaramillo, Elizabeth
%T Urban income and city size : Ecological Inference with Entropy Econometrics for the Spanish municipalities

%D 2009
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6542
%X Most of the regional empirical analyses are limited by the lack of data. Researches have to
use information which is structured in administrative or political regions not always
economically meaningful. Any aggregation of a territory in regions with economic sense
requires data of the main economic variables at basic spatial units, like GDP at a local
level. In this paper a methodology to approximate local GDP values is proposed using
entropy econometrics which can be defined as an exercise of ecological inference. In
addition to the analysis of the main characteristics of the techniques proposed, the paper
illustrates how the procedure works taking as empirical application the estimation of
income for the Spanish municipalities according to their size. As an example of the
possibilities open by this methodology a regional classification based on the relevance of
the cities size, which allows us to measure the relevance of agglomeration economics, is
empirically applied to the Spanish case obtaining some interesting first results.

%K Relaciones entre tamaño urbano y renta
%K Máxima entropía
%K Inferencia ecológica
%K España
%K Urban size and income relationship
%K Entropy econometrics
%K Ecological inference
%K Spain
%K C15, C21, R11 and R12
%K Economía
%K Economics
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala