Introduction growth on the part of the country as a whole. In particular, the arguments here
tend to focus on the role which geographical proximity can play in the fostering, facilitating …

Spatial externalities are a central element in the conceptual framework underlying the new
economic geography (Fujita, Krugman, and Venables 1999). In contrast to regional science …

There are doubts about the effectiveness of regional policy. Well known are the fruitless
attempts of Italy to bridge the gap between the Mezzogiorno and the North, of Germany to …

The need for a better understanding of the role location plays in economic life was first and
most famously made explicit by Bertil Ohlin in 1933. However it is only recently, with the …

The three general approaches to empirical work in economics are structural,
experimentalist, and descriptive. This paper provides an overview of how empirical work in …

On the assumption that it is sometimes necessary to take a step sideways to make progress,
this article describes the author's preferred spatial econometric modeling approach based …

Theoretical economic geography has received significant new impetus from so‐called 'new
economic geography'theory, and this provides the basis of the spatial econometric model …

This paper reviews and evaluates the analytical literature on the interdependencies of
agglomeration and central place theory. It is emphasized that economic agents (firms …

The tyranny of distance in terms of its effect on median earnings and housing costs is
examined for rural and urban US counties. First, we develop a series of distance metrics for …

This article describes methods used in the field of spatial economics that combine insights
from economic theory and evidence from data in order to answer counterfactual questions. I …