This book gives a comprehensive description of macroeconometric modeling and its development over time. The first part depicts the history of macroeconometric model building, starting with Jan Tinbergen's and Lawrence R. Klein's contributions. It is unique in summarizing the development and...

Spatial Analysis -- Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis -- Spatial Interaction and Spatial Autocorrelation: A Cross-Product Approach -- Spatial Statistical Analysis and Geographic Information Systems -- Whose Hand on the Tiller? Revisiting “Spatial Statistical Analysis and GIS” -- Spatial...

The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for graduate students, reflecting recent advances and adding insightful new material. The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies...

Regional Science is now more than 50 years old, in the last two decades, significant advances in methodology have occurred, spurred in large part by access to computers. The range of analytical techniques now available is enormous, this books provides a sampling of the toolkit that is now at the...

1 Quantile Regression: An Overview. 2 Linear and Nonparametric Quantile Regression -- 3 A Quantile Regression Analysis of Assessment Regressivity.-4 Quantile Version of the Spatial AR Model -- 5 . Conditionally Parametric Quantile Regression.- 6 Guide to Further Reading -- References

This book provides a detailed examination of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after closer integration in the European Union. An important facet of European economic integration was the development of a free-trade area in Central and Eastern Europe,...

This book provides an assessment of the evolution and dynamics of regional innovation systems (RISs) and the economic and social impact of resulting knowledge spillovers, presenting comparative case studies on the regions of several Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Czech Republic,...

Europe enlarged its boundaries in 2004 with the accession of ten new member states to the European Union. The creation of an effective information society is seen as critical to the global competitiveness of Europe. Based upon detailed data collection and rigorous analysis, the book presents a...

This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national competition authorities that enforce it,...

The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment -- The Redistributive Impacts of Migration after the EU's Eastern Enlargement -- Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare -- Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed...