Several authors maintain that smokers impose a considerable burden on society through hospitalization and medical costs and lost output due to premature death. In this paper, supplementary costs related to smoking are estimated at 669 million dollars for the year 1986 in Canada. However, since...

PAELINCK J. H. P. and POLESE M. (1999) Modelling the regional impact of continental economic integration: lessons from the European Union for NAFTA, Reg. Studies 33 , 727-738. The paper sketches the outlines of a 'model' for predicting the impact of continental economic integration (CI) on...

En este trabajo analizamos la situación actual de la Econometría espacial, como disciplina de naturaleza econométrica especializada en el manejo de datos y relaciones de tipo espacial. Se trata de un campo de investigación que ha evolucionado muy rápidamente en las últimas décadas...

This book treats the notion of morphisms in spatial analysis, paralleling these concepts in spatial statistics (Part I) and spatial econometrics (Part II). The principal concept is morphism (e.g., isomorphisms, homomorphisms, and allomorphisms), which is defined as a structure preserving the...