Seya, Hajime; Tsutsumi, Morito; Yamagata, Yoshiki - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 1, pp. 60-71
With the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s, economic disparities among both people and regions have arisen in Japan. Although developments in spatial econometrics have provided regional convergence studies with highly effective tools to explicitly consider spatial dependence and...