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 journal has been launched in 1972 under the title Regional and Urban Economics,
which is almost the name of the JEL-classification entry R. The first point we wish to make is …

CHAPTER 2 THE SCOPE OF SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS Page 1 CHAPTER 2 THE SCOPE
OF SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS In this first chapter in Part I, I outline the scope of the book in …

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we give an overview of the general direction the
spatial econometrics literature has taken without attempting to provide a representative …

In the introduction to New Directions in Spatial Econometrics (Anselin and Florax, 1995b),
the precursor to the current volume, we set out by arguing that “it would be an overstatement …

In recent years, the role of space in general and of spatial externalities in particular has
gained an increasingly prominent position in mainstream economics, in part stimulated by …

Spatial statistics and spatial econometrics have enjoyed fruitful theoretical developments
over the years, beginning in part with the popularizing seminal work of Cliff and Ord [2] …

Although a rich and extensive body of theoretical research on new economic geography has
emerged, empirical research remains comparatively less well developed. This paper …

In this paper, I give a personal view on the development of the field of spatial econometrics
during the past 30 years. I argue that it has moved from the margins to the mainstream of …