Directors at large, publicly-listed firms tend to hold several directorships. The literature on quot;social networksquot; suggests that directors with multiple directorships may spread what they learn on one board to another board. This suggests that overlapping directors may cause corporate...

This paper studies the nexus between the property market and the macroeconomy of Mainland China in 1998-2004, using panel data models covering 31 provinces and major cities. The estimates suggest three main conclusions. First, there seemed to be a two-way linkage between property price and GDP...

The securities industry is more important than ever to the New York City economy, and a protracted downturn in the industry's employment could seriously hurt the overall job picture. Increased stability in other New York City industries, however, could help soften the economic effects of such a...

This paper proposes a new GMM estimator for spatial regression models with moving average errors. Monte Carlo results are given indicating that the GMM estimates are close to expectation and robust to non-normality, and the Bootstrap method is suggested as a way of testing the significance of...

A standard neoclassical model of growth predicts convergence of income levels across countries and geographical regions. Recent empirical evidence, however, has shown that the gap between rich and poor countries has increased over the last thirty years. One of the key regularities that are at...

The paper explores regional trade integration of the countries involved in the EU eastward enlargement (EU-25) processes distinguishing the possible regional trade clusters within EU-25 that may support integration of the EU-15 and the new member states. We examine whether the gravity equation...

Residential neighborhoods are defined as convex geographical areas containing similar populations and roughly homogenous housing markets. Neighborhoods are relevant largely because confidentiality requires spatial aggregation of data collected at the household level.A hedonic model using...

This report summarises the scientific content and results of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on 'Economic Geography and European Finance' held at Jesus College, Oxford University, 16-19 September 2004. The objective of the workshop was to further our understanding of the...

Spatial autoregressive hedonic models utilize house prices lagged in space and time to produce local house price indices: e.g., the STAR model might be used this way. This paper complements these models with a semiparametric approach, the Local Regression Model (LRM) designed to use large...