<title>Abstract</title> In this editorial we summarize and comment on the papers published in issue 7.2. The papers reviewed are ‘Informal Sector and Manufacturing Location: In Search of the Missing Links’ by Michiel Gerritse & Ana Moreno-Monroy; ‘Testing for Unit Roots and Cointegration in Spatial...

<title>Abstract</title>In this editorial we summarize and comment on papers published in issue 8.2. The first paper is ‘New Economic Geography and Reunified Germany at Twenty: A Fruitful Match?’ by Frank Bickenbach & Eckhardt Bode. Next comes ‘The Role of the Human Capital, Market Potential and Natural...

<title>Abstract</title> In this editorial we summarize and comment on papers published in issue 7.4. The first paper is ‘Spatial Econometrics of Innovation: Recent Contributions and Research Perspectives’, by Corinne Autant-Bernard. Then we have the contribution by Martin Andersson & Jan Weiss on...

<title>Abstract</title> In this editorial we summarize and comment on papers published in issue 8.1. The first paper is ‘Predation in Space’ by Stefano Colombo. Next comes Arnab Bhattacharjee & Sean Holly's paper entitled ‘Understanding Interactions in Social Networks and Committees’. We then comment...

<title>Abstract</title> Over the last 20 years or so, mainstream economists have become more interested in spatial economics and have introduced largely neoclassical economic concepts and tools to explain phenomena that were previously the preserve of economic geographers. One of these concepts is the...

Abstract Verdoorn's law is estimated in a spatial econometric framework for individual manufacturing industries using EU regional data. Estimates of encompassing returns to scale are large, but other explanatory variables, including measures of industrial specialization and diversity, tend to be...