A critical discussion of a comparative growth analysis about Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is performed. The main conclusion is that there was economic convergence for most CEE accession candidates, but not between them and Western Europe. Results do justify a separation into...

Panel models are popular models in applied sciences and the question of spatial errors has recently created the demand for spatial system estimation of panel models. In this paper we propose new diagnostic methods to explore if and how the spatial components will make significant differences of...

We analyze the development of 18 types of criminal records in Japan for the period 1991–2001 across 47 prefectures with spatial lag and spatio-temporal heteroscedasticity. We explore the hypothesis that crime data are related to socio-economic variables in Japan. We extend the Bayesian...