This paper reviews a number of conceptual issues pertaining to the implementation of an
explicit “spatial” perspective in applied econometrics. It provides an overview of the …

The study of regional income convergence continues to attract enormous attention. Recent
emphasis has been placed on the underlying spatial dimensions of regional growth …

This study employed panel spatial simultaneous equations models with a generalized
spatial two-stage least squares (GS2SLS) method to explore the three-way linkages among …

The development of specialized software for spatial data analysis has seen rapid growth
since the lack of such tools was lamented in the late 1980s by Haining (1989) and cited as a …

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 …

This study investigates the nexus between natural resources, renewable energy
consumption, economic growth, and carbon emission in 35 belt and road initiative (BRI) …

Learning to Think Spatially examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into
existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. Spatial thinking must be …

This article outlines a taxonomy of spatial econometric model specifications that incorporate
spatial externalities in various ways. The point of departure is a reduced form in which local …

This chapter describes PySAL, an open source library for spatial analysis written in the
object oriented language Python. PySAL grew out of the software development activities that …

The volume on New Directions in Spatial Econometrics appeared in 1995 as one of the first
in the then new Springer series on Advances in Spatial Sciences. It very quickly became …