I: Reflecting on Methodology -- 1. Tribute to Luigi Solari -- 2. The scientific work of Luigi Solari -- II: Modelling -- 3. Econometric model building for the Common Market -- 4. A nonlinear expenditure system: Qualitative Analysis and Experiments with Canadian Data -- III: Estimating -- 5. A...

This volume is mainly concerned with methods of estimating income elasticity. It is connected with economic development that can be achieved by reducing income inequality, a highly relevant subject in today's world for a wide range of policy areas.

This book treats the notion of morphisms in spatial analysis, paralleling these concepts in spatial statistics (Part I) and spatial econometrics (Part II). The principal concept is morphism (e.g., isomorphisms, homomorphisms, and allomorphisms), which is defined as a structure preserving the...

The paper describes a spatial economic equilibrium in which each market shows an equilibrium and the location of all producers is determined in an optimal way. Being a very general model, in order to solve it a number of hypotheses had to be introduced. We used the hypothesis of Tinbergen and...

This paper addresses the relationship between trade liberalization and income inequality among Indian states using a Poisson distributed-lag analysis. Two measures of income inequality are considered: the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation. Trade liberalization is proxied using...