international trade flows, because it permits a better accounting for zero flows and extreme values in the distribution tail …. Nevertheless, as trade flows are not independent from each other due to spatial and network autocorrelation, these methods may lead …/negative binomial specifications have been proposed in the literature on gravity modelling of trade. However, no specific treatment has …

Bilateral trade flows traditionally have been analysed by means of the spatial interaction gravity model. Still, (auto …)correlation of trade flows has only recently received attention in the literature. This paper takes up this thread of emerging … literature, and shows that spatial filtering (SF) techniques can take into account the autocorrelation in trade flows …

Bilateral trade flows traditionally have been analysed by means of the spatial interaction gravity model. Still, (auto …)correlation of trade flows has only recently received attention in the literature. This paper takes up this thread of emerging … literature, and shows that spatial filtering (SF) techniques can take into account the autocorrelation in trade flows …

international trade flows, because it permits a better accounting for zero flows and extreme values in the distribution tail …. Nevertheless, as trade flows are not independent from each other due to spatial autocorrelation, these methods may lead to biased … specification have been proposed in the literature of gravity modelling of trade. However, no specific treatment has been developed …