Based on a sample of 1,084 European regions (EU 15) over the period of 1995–2004, we estimate the determinants of regional growth of GDP per capita, allowing for both spatial lag and spatial error dependence. We find that robust LM tests cannot reject the null hypothesis of no spatial...

Let X, Y be random vectors with values in d and 1, respectively, and denote by F(· x) the conditional distribution function of Y given X = x. It is well known that the kernel estimator of the regression functional [theta](x) := T(F(· x)), based on n independent replicates of (X, Y), has...