Abstract With the 2004 enlargement to the East, the EU regional growth process can no longer be seen in the frame of the traditional core–periphery pattern. This is why this article proposes an innovative methodology to endogenously detect convergence clubs while accounting for spatial...

Abstract The regional economic convergence/divergence issue has been discussed extensively recently, but results obtained are not always interpretable unequivocally as a consequence of the different estimation strategies used. As it is widely recognized, the most common theoretical framework...

<title>Abstract</title> The present paper suggests an estimation procedure for a Cliff and Ord type spatial panel data model with random effects. Building on existing literature, the paper suggests an estimation procedure that (i) considers all the moment conditions in Kapoor et al. (2007) and (ii) allows for...

<title>Abstract</title> One of the most widely used tests for spatial dependence is Moran's (1950) I test. The power of the test will depend on the extent to which the spatial-weights matrix employed in computing the Moran I test statistic properly specifies existing interaction links between spatial units....