Abstract New Economic Geography presents increasing returns to agglomeration as a central explanation for concentration of economic activity. The estimation of the size of these effects remains, however, a standing issue in the field. The focus of this study is to investigate the presence of...

We use data of neighborhoods of Bogotá to assess the causal relation between their adolescent fertility and their homicide rates. We find that neighborhoods with high adolescent fertility rates, and that have low secondary enrollment and high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen...

The importance of "broader" economic effects of transportation infrastructure has recently become apparent. "Broader" refers to impacts beyond the geographic boundaries within which the infrastructure investments are undertaken. Approaches to estimate "broader" impacts in production and cost...

On the basis of recent theoretical developments of complex Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), this paper is aimed at shedding light on the new aspects of FDI determinants in MENA countries. An empirical application with a spatial panel data model shows that both bilateral and third-country FDI...

This paper empirically examines whether expansion of the EU has increased international tax competition. To do so, we use a market potential weighting scheme to estimate the slope of best responses. We find robust evidence for tax competition. In particular, our estimates suggest that EU...

On the base of the Russian data, we undertook an empirical testing of a model where the spatial externalities generated by regional growths are considered as a source for development of neighboring territories. As our results show, such externalities do affect the other regions' growth rates but...

This paper aims to explain the spatial econometric models and analyses these models with the maximum likelihood method. Also in addition to specification tests which belong to spatial models, choosing the best model that represents data is explained. In this context, the vegetable lands used in...