<title>Abstract</title> In this paper we summarize and comment on the papers published in issue 6.3. The papers reviewed are: ‘In Search of “W”’ by Richard Harris, John Moffat & Victoria Kravtsova; ‘Cross-national Neighbouring Effects on European Regional Specialization’ by Toni Mora, Patricia...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper demonstrates an evaluation of welfare policies and regional allocation of public investment using the recent developments in efficiency analysis and statistical inference. Specifically, the efficiency of the welfare policies of the Greek prefectures for the census years of...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper details the construction of a large-scale computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for a single US region. The model contains a detailed treatment of margins and taxes, features not typically given prominence in US regional CGE models. The starting point for the core of the...

<title>Abstract</title> The Spatial Econometrics Association appeared on the scene only five years ago during a time of unprecedented expansion of research activities in the field. This paper tries to summarize the developments that occurred in this first lustrum of life of the Association. The review...

<title>Abstract</title> The paper discusses the standard approaches in constructing the spatial weights matrix, W, and the implications of using such approaches in terms of the potential mis-specification of W. We then look at more recent attempts to measure W in the literature, including: Bayesian (searching...

<title>Abstract</title> We examine three tests of cross-sectional dependence and apply them to a Danish regional panel dataset with few time periods and a large cross-section: the CD <italic>test due to Pesaran (</italic>2004<italic>), the Schott test and the Liu--Lin--Shao test. We show that the</italic> CD <italic>test and the Schott test have good...</italic>