"The objective of this book is to make a link between existing quantitative approaches... and the manner in which we can generalize thess approaches to cases where the available data for analysis have a spatial dimension."--

Spatial effects are endemic in models based on spatially referenced data. The increased awareness of the relevance of spatial interactions, spatial externalities and networking effects among actors, evoked the area of spatial econometrics. Spatial econometrics focuses on the specification and...