Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Applications

✍ Scribed by Badi H. Baltagi, Giuseppe Arbia (auth.), Giuseppe Arbia, Badi H. Baltagi (eds.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: Studies in Empirical Economics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Spatial Econometrics is a rapidly evolving field born from the joint efforts of economists, statisticians, econometricians and regional scientists. The book provides the reader with a broad view of the topic by including both methodological and application papers. Indeed the application papers relate to a number of diverse scientific fields ranging from hedonic models of house pricing to demography, from health care to regional economics, from the analysis of R&D spillovers to the study of retail market spatial characteristics. Particular emphasis is given to regional economic applications of spatial econometrics methods with a number of contributions specifically focused on the spatial concentration of economic activities and agglomeration, regional paths of economic growth, regional convergence of income and productivity and the evolution of regional employment. Most of the papers appearing in this book were solicited from the International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics held in Rome (Italy) in 2006.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Errors in variables and spatial effects in hedonic house price models of ambient air quality....Pages 5-34
A generalized method of moments estimator for a spatial model with moving average errors, with application to real estate prices....Pages 35-57
Spatial analysis of urban growth in Spain, 1900–2001....Pages 59-80
A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in the space....Pages 81-103
A spatially filtered mixture of β-convergence regressions for EU regions, 1980–2002....Pages 105-121
Spatial shift-share analysis versus spatial filtering: an application to Spanish employment data....Pages 123-142
R&D spillovers and firms' performance in Italy Evidence from a flexible production function....Pages 143-166
The impact of decentralization and inter-territorial interactions on Spanish health expenditure....Pages 167-184
Regional evidence on financial development, finance term structure and growth....Pages 185-201
Convergence in per-capita GDP across European regions: a reappraisal....Pages 203-222
Locational choice and price competition: some empirical results for the austrian retail gasoline market....Pages 223-244
Dynamic spatial modelling of regional convergence processes....Pages 245-261
Spatial and supply/demand agglomeration economies: State- and industry-linkages in the U.S. food system....Pages 263-281

✦ Subjects

Econometrics; Regional Science; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance