The hospital competition literature shows that estimates of the effect of local market structure (concentration) on pricing (competition) are sensitive to geographic market definition. Our spatial lag model approach effects smoothing of the explanatory variables across the discrete market...

In spatial econometrics, the typical alternative of spatial autocorrelation is expressed in the form of a spatial autorregressive process. While the bulk of the literature is devoted to specification tests and estimation methods for these models, alternatives have been suggested as well. In this...

Andy Isserman left a lasting impact on the fields of Regional Science and Planning. This special issue is dedicated to his memory. In addition to summarizing its contents, in this article I also reflect on Andy’s particular view of Regional Science as a field, expressed in many of his...

type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>En este artículo investigamos las propiedades de muestra finitas del estadístico de la prueba I de Moran para la autocorrelación espacial en modelos tobit como los sugeridos por Kelejian y Prucha. Con esto llenamos un vacío en la literatura teórica mediante...</p>