Spatial Econometrics is a rapidly evolving field born from the joint efforts of economists, statisticians, econometricians 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 economics, from the analysis of R&D spillovers to the study of retail market spatial characteristics. Particular emphasis is given to regional economic applications of spatial econometrics methods with a number of contributions specifically focused on the spatial concentration of economic activities and agglomeration, regional paths of economic growth, regional convergence of income and productivity and the evolution of regional employment. Most of the papers appearing in this book were solicited from the International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics held in Rome (Italy) in 2006.

Broad view on the topic Methodologies and application

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Badi H. Baltagi is distinguished Professor of Economics, and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Before joining Syracuse University, he served on the faculty at the University of Houston and Texas University. He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory.

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Errors in variables and spatial effects in hedonic house price models of ambient air quality.- A generalized method of moments estimator for a spatial model with moving average errors, with application to real estate prices.- Spatial analysis of urban growth in Spain, 19002001.- A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in the space.- A spatially filtered mixture of ?-convergence regressions for EU regions, 19802002.- Spatial shift-share analysis versus spatial filtering: an application to Spanish employment data.- R&D spillovers and firms' performance in Italy Evidence from a flexible production function.- The impact of decentralization and inter-territorial interactions on Spanish health expenditure.- Regional evidence on financial development, finance term structure and growth.- Convergence in per-capita GDP across European regions: a reappraisal.- Locational choice and price competition: some empirical results for the austrian retail gasoline market.- Dynamic spatial modelling of regional convergence processes.- Spatial and supply/demand agglomeration economies: State- and industry-linkages in the U.S. food system.