ecological spatial model, and this is done in chapter 8. Finally, I wanted to put together the earlier improvements to the CAR … performed better than the usual models, but only when both outcomes shared a strong spatial correlation. The next objective … spatial correlation in the outcomes, as well as accommodating both individual and areal measures of covariates. Using the …

paper, a programming approach is used in tandem with spatial economic theory to understand the spatial welfare impacts of an …

spatial interactions on banks' performance. We compute and examine, using a physical distance-based spatio-temporal empirical … appears to induce frictions and lessen the documented spatial interactions. These findings support our plea that research on …

. Finally, in a spatial econometric framework, I test for the presence and magnitude of network spillovers from infrastructure …

description of the structure of the thesis.Chapter 2 provides a literature review of studies that have focused on spatial … analogue of a linear probability can be formulated as a spatial autoregressive Cliff and Ord (1973, 1981)-type model. The sets … of Monte Carlo experiments show that the parameters of the model can be estimated without bias using a spatial 2SLS …

an input-output table and geographic distance between regions as the weight matrix in spatial econometric estimation to …

individually thus losing information about spatial coherence and increasing computational cost. Therefore, we transform …

simulated spatial labor market model is used to explore the economic effects of various stages of regional integration …