This paper provides a survey and critique of how spatial links are taken into account in empirical analysis by applied economists/regional scientists. Spatial spillovers and spatial interrelationships between economic variables (e.g. unemployment, GDP, etc) are likely to be important, especially...

This paper presents some analysis of the effects that outward FDI can have on productivity and in the home country. We focus on sectors that are seen as being low, or medium/ low technology sectors, and using firm level data for the UK, compare a number a of different measures of FDI, and a...