Many governments have introduced policies aimed at improving social mix, particularly in urban areas. In this article we develop a model of moving and location decisions, which demonstrates how cumulative processes of growth, decline and segregation occur that conflict with the aims of policies...

This article provides empirical evidence of interregional risk sharing in unified Germany. The focus is on two related questions. First, to what extent do private institutions and the public sector provide insurance against idiosyncratic shocks to individual regions? Second, to what extent does...

This paper explores the implications that spatial effects can hold for the application of measures of "&sgr;"-convergence. The bias of a common indicator of "&sgr;"-convergence is examined for a family of spatial process models including: [a] spatial lag, [b] spatial error, and [c] spatial moving...

This paper applies Verdoorn's and Okun's law to derive efficient estimates of the employment and unemployment threshold in the Unified Germany. The analysis is built on a disaggregated dataset of regional labour markets, where spatial dependencies are taken into account. Especially, a spatial...

The purpose of this article is to analyse the effect of the externalities of industrial pollution on trade patterns and economic geography. Many researchers have studied the effects of agglomeration on regional systems. Krugman (1991) applied the monopolistic competition model to international...

This article analyses the consequences of spatial interdependence for convergence in a Solow-type growth model. In such a model a region's speed of convergence depends on its location and it can be decomposed into: (i) the speed of convergence proper, (ii) the remoteness effect, and (iii) the...

This research note demonstrates the advantage of biproportional projection over the ordinary (proportional) method of technical coefficients in input-output analysis: the former is insensitive to price changes, the latter is not so. Consequently, structural change can generally be measured using...

This article examines the distribution of residential property prices in 2001 across local areas in England using spatial econometric methods, showing that spatial variations in local income, income within commuting distance, the stock of residential properties and the quality of local schooling...