Search Results - subject:"Spatial econometrics."

Aggregate and regional economic effects of new railway infrastructure

Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2009

Economists expect positive returns to investments in infrastructure. However a project with higher national returns might have less favourable effects on a regional level than the alternative. Therefore new infrastructure should also be assessed on a regional level, but econom(etr)ic evaluation...

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Econometric evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy: a survey

Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - 2009

More than one third of the European Union's total budget is spent on socalled Cohesion Policy via the structural funds. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of the various European regions. Investigating the impact...

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Yardstick competition in German municipalities

Finken, Jan - 2009

Does increasing transparency improve fiscal policy behavior of local governments? One way this could take place is via Yardstick Competition between incumbents of neighboring municipalities. This paper contributes to the literature by introducing a simple model which employs probabilistic voting...

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Knowledge Diffusion Processes: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Klarl, Torben Alexander - 2009

is empirically based. In recent years, a new discipline, so called spatial econometrics, which can be labeled as a …. Moreover, Bayesian methods do a great job within spatial econometrics, particularly when talking about spatial heterogeneity … astonishing, that most of spatial econometrics applications are still based only on the frequentist methods, despite their …

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Determinants of Agricultural Cash Rents in Germany: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Farm-Level Data

Breustedt, Gunnar; Habermann, Hendrik - 2009

This article analyses determinants for 2001 farmland rental prices from 4376 farms in Germany. We derive our regression equation from a spatial reaction function to allow for spatial transmission of rental prices. Results from a general spatial model show that a € 1 per hectare higher rental...

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Spatial Dynamic Panel Model and System GMM: A Monte Carlo Investigation

Kukenova, Madina; Monteiro, José-Antonio - 2009

several endogenous variables. So far, none of the available estimators in spatial econometrics allows considering spatial …

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Tax Interactions among Belgian Municipalities: Does Language Matter?

Gérard, Marcel; Jayet, Hubert; Paty, Sonia - CESifo - 2009

spatial econometrics and an original methodology for specifying weights matrices, we find out that municipalities are …

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Spatial HAC estimator: analysis of convergence of European regions

Shepotylo, Oleksandr - Kyiv School of Economics - 2009

This paper applies a nonparametric heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) estimator of error terms in the context of the spatial autoregressive model of GDP per capita convergence of European regions at NUTS 2 level. By introducing the spatial dimension, it looks at how the...

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Simulating Wages and House Prices Using the NEG*

Fingleton, Bernard - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2009

: new economic geography, real estate prices, spatial econometrics JEL Classifications: C21, C31, O18, R12, R31 Data …

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The distributional effects of NAFTA in Mexico: evidence from a panel of municipalities

Baylis, Katherine R.; Garduno-Rivera, Rafael; Piras, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

traded and non-traded sectors. Given the spatial nature of these data, we make explicit use of spatial econometrics methods …

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