Research

Publications: 

1. 1. Puente-Ajovín, M., M. Sanso-Navarro and M. Vera-Cabello (2025).  The determinants of national city size distributions: A BMA approach. Cities, forthcoming.

   2. Sanso-Navarro, M. and M. Vera-Cabello (2025). Terrorism and municipality size in Colombia. Defence and Peace Economics, forthcoming. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2025.2520233

   3. Puente-Ajovín, M., M. Sanso-Navarro and M. Vera-Cabello (2024).  Comparing city size distributions: Gridded population versus nighttime lights. Journal of Regional Science,  64(4), 1323-1358.

   4. Sanso-Navarro, M., F. Sanz and M. Vera-Cabello (2023). Terrorism determinants, model uncertainty and space in Colombia. Defence and Peace Economics, 34(1), 92-111.

   5. Puente-Ajovín, M., M. Sanso-Navarro and M. Vera-Cabello (2022). The distribution of urban population and economic activity in the European Union and the United States. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 15(3), 517-522.

   6. Callado-Muñoz, F. J., J. Hromcová, M. Sanso-Navarro, N. Utrero-González and M. Vera-Cabello (2022). Firm performance in regulated markets: The case of the Spanish Defence Industry. Defence and Peace Economics, 33(2), 201-2018.

   7. Sanso-Navarro, M. and M. Vera-Cabello (2020). Income Inequality and Persistence Changes. Social Indicators Research, 152, 495-511.

   8. Sanso-Navarro, M., M. Vera-Cabello and M. Puente-Ajovín (2020). Regional convergence and spatial dependence: A worldwide perspective. The Annals of Regional Science,  65 (1), 147-177.

   9. Sanso-Navarro, M. and M. Vera-Cabello (2020). The socio-economic determinants of terrorism: A Bayesian model averaging approach. Defence and Peace Economics, 31 (3), 269-288.

   10. Sanso-Navarro, M., F. Sanz and M. Vera-Cabello (2019). The demographic impact of terrorism: Evidence from municipalities in the Basque Country and Navarre. Regional Studies, 53 (6), 838-848.

   11. Sanso-Navarro, M. and M. Vera-Cabello (2018). The long-run relationship between R&D and regional Knowledge: The case of France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Regional Studies, 52 (5), 619-631. 

   12. Sanso-Navarro, M., M. Vera-Cabello and D. P. Ximénez-de-Embún (2017). Human capital spillovers and regional development. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 32 (4), 923-930. 

   13. Sanso-Navarro, M. and M. Vera-Cabello (2016). Regional growth, innovation, and latent nonlinear effects. Journal of Regional Science, 56 (5), 814-847. 

   14. Lanaspa, L., F. Sanz-Gracia and M. Vera-Cabello (2016). The (strong) interdependence between intermediate producer services' attributes and manufacturing location. Economic Modelling, 57, 1-12

   15. Sanso-Navarro, M., F. Sanz and M. Vera-Cabello (2015). The impact of the American Civil War on city growth. Urban Studies, 52 (16), 3070-3085.

   16. Sanso-Navarro, M. and M. Vera-Cabello (2015). Nonlinearities in regional growth: A nonparametric approach. Papers in Regional Science, 94 (S1), S19-S38.

   17. González-Val, R., A. Ramos, F. Sanz and M. Vera-Cabello (2015). Size distributions for all cities: Which one is best? Papers in Regional Science, 94 (1), 177-196.

Working papers (Submitted):

"Physical capital investment and growth: Panel data evidence from European regions" (with M. Sanso-Navarro)

"The causal relationship between military spending and unemployment in the EU15", (with M. Sanso-Navarro)

Working in progress:

"The determinants of city size distributions: A Bayesian model averaging approach' (with M. Puente-Ajovín and M. Sanso-Navarro)

"Climate change and the distribution of city sizes", (with M. Puente-Ajovín and M. Sanso-Navarro)

"A novel test of time series convergence" (with J. Olmo and M. Sanso-Navarro) 

"Productivity, international migration and self-defeating regional concentration" (with L. Lanaspa)

Media coverage:

Cap. 118 - Conflictos Armados  En ruta con la ciencia, 2019.