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In spatial econometrics, various topics have their own importance: specification, estimation and testing are the main building blocks of a spatial econometric model.
An economist should attach special importance to the specification stage; experience has taught that the functioning of spatial economies follows a complex pattern, and that is the pattern that should be adequately modeled.
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In spatial econometrics, various topics have their own importance: specification, estimation and testing are the main building blocks of a spatial econometric model.
An economist should attach special importance to the specification stage; experience has taught that the functioning of spatial economies follows a complex pattern, and that is the pattern that should be adequately modeled.
In this part, a certain number of working papers are brought together, most of which have been presented and commented on at special sessions of international conferences, sessions devoted to spatial econometrics and statistics.
Apparently they stand loose from each other; but, a common thread links them all together, to wit the necessity of discovering the complex bindings—static or dynamic—of spatial economic units. Hopefully this may stimulate fresh thinking about this very important aspect of spatial econometric modeling.
Some non-standard specifications have not been included, as they have been or are going to be published (e.g. Coutrot et al. 2009; Griffith and Paelinck, 2009).
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Coutrot, B., Paelinck, J.H.P., Sallez, A. 2009. Analyzing the complexity of knowledge-based spatial economic developments, Région et Développement, 29: 201–228.
Griffith, D.A., Paelinck, J.H.P. 2009. Specifying a joint space- and time-lag using a bivariate poisson distribution, Journal of Geographical Systems, 11: 23–36.
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Griffith, D.A., Paelinck, J.H. (2011). Introduction: Spatial Econometrics. In: Non-standard Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics. Advances in Geographic Information Science, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16043-1_10
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