Recent developments in the regional policy have stressed the importance of regional networks. Now the definition of innovation regions, which reflect the knowledge spatial activities, is becoming relevant. The spatial econometric estimation of a production function, which is based on endegenous...

Zur Messung räumlicher Konzentration ökonomischer Aktivitäten stehen verschiedene Verfahren zur Verfügung. Nachstehend wird mit den distanzbasierten uni- und bivariaten KFunktionen eine neue Methode vorgestellt, die Vorteile gegenüber den herkömmlichen, auf regionaler Abgrenzung...

Traditional measures of spatial industry concentration are restricted to given areal units. They do not make allowance for the fact that concentration may be differently pronounced at various geographical levels. Methods of spatial point pattern analysis allow to measure industry concentration...

In view of the lack of area-wide regional price data, Aten and Heston (2005) adopted an econometric approach in estimating regional price level from an international perspective. At a regional level, however, spatial economic theory may contribute to advancement in explaining price level...