The Ramsey regression equation specification error test (RESET) furnishes a diagnostic for omitted variables in a linear regression model specification (i.e., the null hypothesis is no omitted variables). Integer powers of fitted values from a regression analysis are introduced as additional...

In this paper, we use provincial panel data on China for the 2002-19 period to conduct a spatial autocorrelation analysis of household saving rates as well as a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of household saving rates using a spatial Durbin model. To summarize our main findings, we...

Die Buchungsplattform Airbnb ist zu einem relevanten Buchungskanal im Tourismus weltweit geworden. Mit Blick auf die vielfältigen sozio-ökonomischen Auswirkungen der Plattform ist die Kenntnis über die räumliche Lage des Airbnb-Angebots von hoher Bedeutung. Für Deutschland gibt es bisher...

Hungary is one of the five countries in the world most affected by the pandemic in terms of registered COVID-19 mortality up to 2023. Our research aims to identify those socioeconomic variables that explain the geographical distribution of the registered district-level mortality burden of the...

Using Dortmund as a case study we analyse whether rents and housing prices responded to local demographic change in a German city between 2007 and 2016. In a two-step analysis based on a spatial autoregressive hedonic pricing model and a discrete choice model of housing location we find that...

This paper investigates how important measurement issues such as the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), random unevenness and spatial autocorrelation affect cross-sectional studies of ethnic segregation. We use geocoded data for German cities to investigate the impact of these measurement...

It is shown that the null distribution of the F-test in a linear regression is rather non-robust to spatial autocorrelation among the regression disturbances. In particular, the true size of the test tends to either zero or unity when the spatial autocorrelation coefficient approaches the...

The paper considers tests against for autocorrelation among the disturbances in linear regression models that can be expressed as ratios of quadratic forms. It shows that such tests are in general not unbiased and that power can even drop to zero for certain regressors and spatial weight...