This paper estimates the elasticity of labor productivity with respect to employment density, a widely used measure of the agglomeration effect, in the Yangtze River Delta, China. A spatial Durbin model is presented that makes explicit the influences of spatial dependence and endogeneity bias in...

The goal of this paper is helping in the diffusion in our country of the techniques given by Spatial Econometrics, offering an overview of its theoretical and applied aspects. Specifically, we introduce the two types of spatial data analysis: the exploratory analysis, focused on a univariate...

PONS-NOVELL J. and VILADECANS-MARSAL E. (1999) Kaldor's laws and spatial dependence: evidence for the European regions, Reg. Studies 33, 443-451. In this paper we provide an outline of Kaldor's growth model and test its relevance to the economic experience of European regions during the period...