Arbia G., Baltagi B.H. (eds.) Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Applications

Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 2008. — 282 p. — (Studies in Empirical Economics) — ISBN: 3790820695, 9783790820690Spatial Ecometrics is a rapidly evolving field born from the joint efforts of ecomists, statisticians, ecometricians 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 ecomics, from the analysis of R&D spillovers to the study of retail market spatial characteristics. Particular emphasis is given to regional ecomic applications of spatial ecometrics methods with a number of contributions specifically focused on the spatial concentration of ecomic activities and agglomeration, regional paths of ecomic growth, regional convergence of income and productivity and the evolution of regional employment.