1. Introduction: spatial effects and the role of configuration of data -- 1.1 Objectives and approaches -- 1.2 An overview of theoretical problems -- 1.3 A sketch of the methodology -- 1.4 An outline of the book -- 1.5 Omitted topics -- 2. Theoretical Problems Motivation -- 2.1 Introduction --...

Existing indices measuring the spatial distribution of economic activity such as the Krugman Specialisation Index, the Hirschmann-Herfindahl index and the Ellison-Glaeser index typically do not take into account the spatial structure of the data. In this paper, we first consider traditional...