Cross-border, transnational regional development in the Rhine-Alpine EU transport corridor represents an ongoing challenge. With 18 partners from five countries, the Rhine-Neckar regional association (Verband Region Rhein-Neckar, VRRN) therefore initiated an EU-funded project along the corridor...

In order to allocate resources and formulate policies effectively, governments and enterprises often need accurate geographical information on profit-seeking enterprises. This study explores the impact of local fiscal expenditure and environmental regulation on the number of profit-seeking...

This paper develops a nonlinear spatial dynamic panel data model, with one particularly interesting application to a structural interaction model for share data. To account for effects from popular units, the spatial weights matrices in our model can allow for dominant units, with unbounded...

This paper brings forward a novel Bayesian estimation and model selection method for spatial dynamic panel data model with convex combinations of different spatial weight matrices. We reparameterize the model as a high order spatial panel model, and recover the importance weights by a...

When there are efficiency spillovers, we can use a spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model to estimate total (spillover-corrected) efficiencies. Glass et al. (2016) ( Journal of Econometrics ) provide a formula for total efficiency in this context, which is an approximation. We provide...