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The regional pervasiveness of local productivity shocks on macroeconomic output in Europe Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Xieer Dai
This paper studies inter-regional technology spillover in EU-28 countries and shows how regional total factor productivity (TFP) shocks shape aggregate productivity in Europe. This paper provides e...
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Accounting for unobserved individual heterogeneity in spatial stochastic frontier models: the case of Italian innovative start-ups Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Federica Galli
Spatial correlation and individual effects are two key sources of heterogeneity that should be handled in empirical applications investigating the productive performance of firms, especially when d...
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Okun’s law in the Visegrad Group countries: its regional disaggregation and determinants Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Martin Boďa, Mariana Považanová, Jiří Škvor
The paper examines Okun’s law on a regional level and its determinants for the four Visegrad Group (V4) countries in Central Europe. Unlike other studies on regional Okun’s law, the paper applies a...
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Spatial extension of mixed models of the analysis of variance Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Takaki Sato, Yuta Kuroda, Yasumasa Matsuda
This study proposes a spatial extension of mixed models of the analysis of variance (MANOVA), called mixed spatial ANOVA (MS-ANOVA) models. MS-ANOVA models have been used to evaluate the spatial co...
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A spatial macroeconomic analysis of the equity-efficiency trade-off of the European cohesion policy Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Javier Barbero, Tryfonas Christou, Francesca Crucitti, Abián García Rodríguez, Nicholas-Joseph Lazarou, Philippe Monfort, Simone Salotti
In this study we use a spatial dynamic general equilibrium model to analyse the macroeconomic impact of cohesion policy-like investments in nine net beneficiary member states of the European Union....
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Co-movements of crude oil prices Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ruya Karci, Nukhet Dogan, M. Hakan Berument
This paper investigates whether the world crude oil market is globalised in a ‘one great pool’ or is regionalised by examining the prices of 21 different types of crude oil from various regions wor...
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Geographic location of nuclear power plants: love thy neighbour as thyself? Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Ibrahim Demir, M. Mahmud Khan
Countries have incentives to geographically locate high-risk industries outside their own jurisdiction or close to the borders with neighbours. Nuclear power-plants (NPPs) are a good example of hig...
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Combining agglomeration economies and endogenous growth without scale effects Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Steven Bond-Smith
Increasing returns to scale is essential to both spatial economics and macroeconomic growth. Spatial externalities imply external local increasing returns that generate an uneven spatial distributi...
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Job polarisation in Italy: routinisation and structural change? Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Valerio Intraligi, Claudia Vittori, Andrea Ricci
Notwithstanding evidence on job polarisation in Italy, to date, studies have not investigated the role of structural change in explaining shrinking routine employment. Over the period 2004–2019, de...
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On the numerical structure of local and nationwide government spending multipliers: what can we learn from the Greek crisis? Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Natalia Q. Cotarelli, Vinicius A. Vale
It has been recognised that the fiscal multiplier is a function of structural features of the economy and policy reaction parameters. Moreover, the debate on the magnitude of the multiplier along t...
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The persistent urbanising effect of refugee camps: evidence from Tanzania, 1985–2015 Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Olive Nsababera, Richard Dickens, Richard Disney
With the rise of forced displacement, attention has turned to the economic impact of refugees. However, few studies investigate long-term impacts. We use data for Tanzania for the period 1985–2015 ...
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The social footprint of globalisation: towards the introduction of strategic industries in quantitative trade models Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Italo Colantone, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Piero Stanig
We argue that our understanding of industrial policy in the presence of ‘strategic’ industries that exert positive externalities on the national economy may benefit from an extension of quantitativ...
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Interregional inequality in budget revenues per capita and its decomposition by source: the case of pre-pandemic Russia Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Marina Malkina
The study identifies the sources of convergence/divergence of Russian regions in per capita budget revenues in the period 2010–19. Budget inequality is assessed using the Theil–Bernoulli index and ...
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New developments in spatial econometric modelling Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Katarzyna Kopczewska, Paul Elhorst
This special issue brings together five methodological contributions and responses to the 16th World Conference of the Spatial Econometric Association held in Warsaw, Poland, in June 2022. Each pap...
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To use, or not to use the spatial Durbin model? – that is the question Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Malabika Koley, Anil K. Bera
The spatial Durbin model (SDM) is one of the most widely used models in spatial econometrics. It originated as a generalisation of the spatial error model (SEM) under a non-linear parametric restri...
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Integrating digital and global transformations in forecasting regional growth: the MASST5 model Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Roberta Capello, Andrea Caragliu, Roberto Dellisanti
During the past decade, world economic development was coupled with disruptive challenges. Among them, digitalisation and new forms of globalisation represent a potential threat for economic growth...
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On the geography of inequality: labour sorting in general equilibrium Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Santiago Truffa, Alexis Montecinos
We study how cities’ amenities and limited housing supply contribute to aggregate wage inequality and affect housing prices through the sorting of heterogeneous skilled workers. We develop a genera...
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Spatial spillovers and the effects of fiscal stimulus: evidence from pandemic-era federal aid for state and local governments Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Jeffrey Clemens, John Kearns, Beatrice Lee, Stan Veuger
We analyse whether US federal aid to state and local governments impacted economic activity through either direct or cross-state spillover effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deploying an instrum...
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Dynamic spatiotemporal ARCH models Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Philipp Otto, Osman Doğan, Süleyman Taşpınar
Geo-referenced data are characterised by an inherent spatial dependence due to geographical proximity. In this paper, we introduce a dynamic spatiotemporal autoregressive conditional heteroscedasti...
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Editorial board 2023 Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-09-27
Published in Spatial Economic Analysis (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2023)
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Raising the bar (final) Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Paul Elhorst, Ugo Fratesi, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
This editorial summarises the papers in issue 18(4) (2023). The first paper investigates attitudes towards civic engagement in relation to living closer to individuals with the same social status. ...
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Spatial GARCH models for unknown spatial locations – an application to financial stock returns Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Markus J. Fülle, Philipp Otto
Spatial GARCH models, like all other spatial econometric models, require the definition of a suitable weight matrix. This matrix implies a certain structure for spatial interactions. GARCH-type mod...
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Comparing modelling performance and evaluating differences of feature importance on defined geographical appraisal zones for mass real estate appraisal Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Arif Cagdas Aydinoglu, Suleyman Sisman
ABSTRACT The features influencing real estate value in different residential areas and cities are important for spatial economic analysis besides high appraisal accuracy. In this study, a methodology was developed for computer-assisted mass real estate appraisal with a case study implemented through the use of big geographical datasets including 121 features and around 200,000 samples of real estate
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Unequal response to mobility restrictions: evidence from COVID-19 lockdown in the city of Bogotá Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 David Castells-Quintana, Paula Herrera-Idárraga, Luis E. Quintero, Guillermo Sinisterra
ABSTRACT We study the effectiveness of the mobility restrictions imposed by governments to curb urban mobility. We use mobile phone-tracked movements to determine whether users left their homes and explore the role of socio-economic differences across neighbourhoods in explaining their unequal response to lockdown measures. We rely on novel data showing changes in movements in highly disaggregated
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Spatio-temporal principal component analysis Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Mirosław Krzyśko, Peter Nijkamp, Waldemar Ratajczak, Waldemar Wołyński, Beata Wenerska
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-established research approach extensively utilised in the quantitative social sciences. The primary objective of the present study is to devise and eval...
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Correction Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-08-21
Published in Spatial Economic Analysis (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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A road map to capture the spatial dependence underlying regions’ economic resilience Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Jesse Sutton, Judith Sutton
Regions are embedded in complex webs of interactions that influence, among other things, their economic resilience. However, a general lack of attention is given to the spatial dependence underlyin...
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Raising the bar (25) Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
ABSTRACT This editorial summarises the papers in issue 18(3) (2023). The first article examines the balloon effect, the shift of production of illicit crops to other areas upon regulatory enforcement. The second paper tests for the existence of innovation spillover effects on firm survival. The third paper analyses the impact of lockdown policy measures on the daily use of mobile phone broadband through
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The RSA Awards 2023 Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-06-20
Published in Spatial Economic Analysis (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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Migration and academic performance in higher education: evidence for Colombia Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Manuel Rodríguez, Jaime Carabali, Alex Pérez, Luis Meneses
We study the relationship between academic performance of students in higher education and the decision to migrate. We focus on the case of Colombia due to the good availability of data on standard...
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Integrating macroeconomics and economic geography: the neoclassical growth model in spatial general equilibrium Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Michael Beenstock
ABSTRACT The neoclassical growth model and the Roback model of spatial general equilibrium (SGE) are integrated to study the joint determination of macroeconomic phenomena (gross domestic product (GDP) and the rate of interest) and spatial economic phenomena (the spatial distribution of gross regional product (GRP), employment and capital). If internal capital mobility is perfect and regional savings
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Spatial dependence in patient migration flows Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Juan Piedra-Peña
This study analyses whether higher efficiency performance of Ecuadorian hospitals attracts larger inflows of interregional patients to a given hospital and assesses the existence of spatial depende...
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Skilled human capital accretion, skilled wages and the geography of growing early-stage businesses Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Leonidas Hernández, Félix Modrego, Miguel Atienza
This article investigates the relationships among skilled human capital, skilled wages, and growing early-stage (GE) business activity at the level of functional regions in Chile, and assesses the ...
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Forecasting regional GDPs: a comparison with spatial dynamic panel data models Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Anna Gloria Billé, Alessio Tomelleri, Francesco Ravazzolo
The monitoring of the regional (provincial) economic situation is of particular importance due to the high level of heterogeneity and interdependences among different territories. Although economet...
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The digital layer: alternative data for regional and innovation studies Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Milad Abbasiharofteh, Miriam Krüger, Jan Kinne, David Lenz, Bernd Resch
The lack of large-scale data revealing the interactions among firms has constrained empirical studies. Utilizing relational web data has remained unexplored as a remedy for this data problem. We co...
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Raising the bar (24) Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
ABSTRACT This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 18(2) (2023). The first paper extends the Solow–Swan growth model with spatial dependence, pollution and time delay. The second paper investigates the (mis)match between relative factor costs and the output elasticities of production factors due to innovations in the European Union’s Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3). The third paper studies whether
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The spatial association between drugs and urban violence: an analysis for the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Brazil Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Raul da Mota Silveira Neto, Diego Firmino Costa da Silva, Filipe Matheus Cavalcanti
The objective of this article is to provide evidence about the association between illegal drugs and urban crimes in Brazil at the neighbourhood level, specifically considering the case of the Reci...
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Civic engagement and socio-economic proximity in urban areas Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Luca Andriani, Pier Paolo Angelini, Andrea Filippetti
Diversity boosts innovation and creativity in urban contexts, but it can also undermine civicness by negatively impacting individuals’ trust of other citizens, also hampering economic and instituti...
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Bayesian analysis of a dynamic multivariate spatial ordered probit model Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Ping Gao, Zixiang Lu
Spatial econometrics has few studies on multivariate ordinal responses. This study proposes a dynamic multivariate spatial ordered probit (DMSOP) model, which is the first attempt to capture tempor...
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Akaike information criterion in choosing the optimal k-nearest neighbours of the spatial weight matrix Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Maria Kubara, Katarzyna Kopczewska
We use the Akaike information criterion (AIC) to assess the quality of non-nested spatial econometric models with a different number of nearest neighbours (knn) included in the spatial weight matri...
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Spatial agglomeration, innovation and firm survival for Italian manufacturing firms Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Arnab Bhattacharjee, Ornella Maietta, Fernanda Mazzotta
ABSTRACT The innovativeness of a firm not only improves its own survival chances but also can generate externalities on its neighbouring firms. We empirically examine the role of agglomeration economies in how innovativeness affects firm survival in southern Italy, using spatial weights to model spillovers. Spatial Durbin probit model estimates confirm that innovation is an important determinant of
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Supply-chain simulations for shaping lockdown policies Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Hiroyasu Inoue, Yohsuke Murase, Yasuyuki Todo
ABSTRACT To prevent the spread of COVID-19, many governments have imposed lockdowns. This practice has resulted in economic stagnation across broad areas because of the shock of the lockdown propagated to other regions through supply chains. Using supply-chain data for 1.6 million firms in Japan, this study examines how the economic effects of lockdowns in multiple regions interact with each other
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A flexible model for spatial volatility with an application to the Chicago housing market Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Jiyoung Chae
ABSTRACT Existing volatility models normally emphasize the behaviour of prices in a temporal sense and comparatively few studies have explicitly analysed the spatial variation of volatility. This paper proposes a flexible spatial volatility model for squared returns using a Box–Cox transformation that includes the linear and log-linear forms as special cases, thus providing a unified framework for
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Raising the bar (23) Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
ABSTRACT This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 18(1) (2023). The first paper sets out a game-theoretic duopolistic spatial model to investigate whether online retailing causes more transportation-related emissions than offline retailing. The second paper proposes a methodology for statistically downscaling projected gross domestic product (GDP). The third paper presents a Bayesian approach
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Diffusion of crime control benefits: forced eradication and coca crops in Colombia Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Eleonora Dávalos, Leonardo Fabio Morales
ABSTRACT One explanation for the increasing number of hectares of coca is that eradication strategies displace coca crops but fail to completely clear affected areas. In the drug policy literature, that dynamic shifting is commonly known as the balloon effect. This study integrates georeferenced agricultural data through spatially explicit econometric models to test the hypothesis that forced eradication
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The relationship between mobile broadband usage and user mobility with lockdown restrictions in Spain Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Ignacio García-Manrique Ocaña, Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo
ABSTRACT This paper studies how COVID-19 lockdown restrictions encouraged and allowed people to form habits of increased mobile phone usage in Spain, even after the most restrictive measures were lifted. We have used data from the mobile network of a national telecommunications operator to study the influence of 15 different mobility restrictions on citizens’ use of mobile phones from 15 March 2020
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Heterogeneous spatial dynamic panels with an application to US housing data Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Yong Bao, Xiaoyan Zhou
This paper proposes two models that incorporate both heterogeneity and multiple sources of spatial correlation for dynamic panels. One uses convex combinations of them to form a single weight matri...
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The rise and spread of female labour force participation at the US county level Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Ioanna Tziolas, J. Paul Elhorst
ABSTRACT In 2011, Fogli and Veldkamp adopted a time–space recursive spatial econometric model to investigate whether the female labour force participation rate varies with past participation rates in their own and in contiguous US counties, based on decennial data over the period 1940–2000, but their results are problematic. The applied estimators are different from the provided descriptions, the predicted
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Raising the bar (22) Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
ABSTRACT This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 17(4) (2022). The first paper combines input–output modelling with priority weighting to analyse supply-chain impacts of disasters. The second paper examines skill-based functional specialization of value chains in Brazil using interregional and international value-added measures. The third paper questions the common belief that agglomeration economies
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Spatial Economic Analysis Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-10-12
Published in Spatial Economic Analysis (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2022)
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Bayesian inference in spatial GARCH models: an application to US house price returns Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Osman Doğan, Süleyman Taşpınar
ABSTRACT In this paper we consider a high-order spatial generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model to account for the volatility clustering patterns observed over space. The model consists of a log-volatility equation that includes the high-order spatial lags of the log-volatility term and the squared outcome variable. We use a transformation approach to turn the model
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Do public libraries impact local labour markets? Evidence from Appalachia Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effect of public library programmes and participation on unemployment and labour force participation in Appalachia. Appalachia is an economically distressed area, mostly rural, and with a sustained lower level of labour force participation and a higher level of unemployment. As public library programmes can be cyclical to business cycles, that is, labour market
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Long-run economic growth in the delay spatial Solow model Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Juan Segura, Daniel Franco, Juan Perán
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the long-term dynamics of the Solow model with spatial dependence of the physical capital, time delay and pollution effect due to capital accumulation. Previous studies not including spatial dependence showed that the dynamics can be cyclic or chaotic, in which cases the description of the long-run system’s behaviour becomes difficult or unfeasible. We provide sufficient
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Technological congruence and Smart Specialisation: evidence from European regions Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Cristiano Antonelli, Christophe Feder, Francesco Quatraro
ABSTRACT This paper links the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) with technological congruence, which stems from the coherence of directed technological change with the structural conditions of local factor markets. We argue that complementary to regional branching, technological congruence is a crucial dimension of S3, and that it has powerful effects on total factor productivity (TFP). The spatial
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A calibrated gravity model of interregional trade Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Mattia Cai
ABSTRACT Lack of interregional trade data is often a major obstacle when doing economic analysis at the subnational level. This paper discusses a calibration procedure for estimating bilateral trade between the regions of a country. Our approach can be equivalently characterized as an application of the gravity-RAS or the doubly constrained gravity model method. Either way, a crucial element is represented
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A spatial stochastic frontier model including both frontier and error-based spatial cross-sectional dependence Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Federica Galli
Spatial dependence in stochastic frontier models is usually handled by modelling the frontier function or the inefficiency error term through the introduction of some spatial components. The model ...
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The local costs of global climate change: spatial GDP downscaling under different climate scenarios Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Massimiliano Rizzati, Gabriele Standardi, Gianni Guastella, Ramiro Parrado, Francesco Bosello, Stefano Pareglio
ABSTRACT We present a tractable methodology to estimate climate change costs at a 1 × 1 km grid resolution. Climate change costs are obtained as projected gross domestic product (GDP) changes, under different global shared socio-economic pathway–representative concentration pathway (SSP-RCP) scenarios, from a regional (multiple European NUTS levels) version of the Intertemporal Computable Equilibrium
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A Bayesian approach for the estimation of weight matrices in spatial autoregressive models Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Tamás Krisztin, Philipp Piribauer
ABSTRACT We develop a Bayesian approach to estimate weight matrices in spatial autoregressive (or spatial lag) models. Datasets in regional economic literature are typically characterized by a limited number of time periods T relative to spatial units N. When the spatial weight matrix is subject to estimation severe problems of over-parametrization are likely. To make estimation feasible, our approach
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Distribution dynamics: a spatial perspective Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Margherita Gerolimetto, Stefano Magrini
ABSTRACT It is quite common in cross-sectional convergence analyses that data exhibit spatial dependence. Within the literature adopting the distribution dynamics approach, authors typically opt for spatial prefiltering. We follow an alternative route and propose a procedure based on an estimate of the mean function of a conditional density for which we develop a two-stage non-parametric estimator
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Raising the bar (21) Spatial Economic Analysis (IF 2.317) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Paul Elhorst, Maria Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Steven Bond-Smith, Coro Chasco, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Philip McCann, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Francesco Quatraro, Umed Temursho, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Jihai Yu
ABSTRACT This editorial summarizes the papers published in issue 17(3) (2022). The first paper analyses the impact of knowledge spillovers on patent applications using a Tobit model. The second paper sets out an economic-theoretical model of industrial specialization patterns across cities and their impact on the spatial agglomeration of skilled workers and long-term productivity growth. The third