A test strategy consisting of a two-step Lagrange multiplier test was recently suggested as a device to reveal spatial nonstationarity, spurious spatial regression and presence of a spatial cointegrating relationship between two variables. Due to the well known radicality of such pre-tests in...

The study investigates whether crime in Turkey is governed by economic rationality. An economic model of rational behaviour claims that the propensity to commit criminal activities is negatively related to risk of deterrence. Potential presence of higher risk profiles for certain population...