Modeling the spatial aspect of growth has finally become an important subject of economics as exemplified by the increasing popularity of the new economic geography. However, new economic geography models have still not been able to develop a consistent approach to integrate innovation, space...

1: Introduction -- 2: The Scope of Spatial Econometrics -- 3: The Formal Expression of Spatial Effects -- 4: A Typology of Spatial Econometric Models -- 5: Spatial Stochastic Processes: Terminology and General Properties -- 6: The Maximum Likelihood Approach to Spatial Process Models -- 7:...

This work sets out to determine the number of centres with high employment density in metropolitan areas. To do this it uses spatial analysis techniques such as Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA). Its most important contribution is the analysed sample: all 359 of the MSAs of the USA...