Spatial Economic Analysis

2006 - 2026

Current editor(s): Bernie Fingleton and Danilo Igliori

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Volume 21, issue 1, 2026

20 years of Spatial Economic Analysis: evolution, achievements and perspectives on the field pp. 1-10

Ugo Fratesi, Maria Abreu, Steven Bond-Smith, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Carolin Ioramashvili, Orsa Kekezi, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Gianfranco Piras, Francesco Quatraro, Francesco Ravazzolo, Shuai Shi, Emmanouil Tranos, Dimitrios Tsiotas, Danlin Yu and Jihai Yu

Why size really doesn’t matter: from megacity myths to place-sensitive prosperity pp. 11-26

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Exploring the deep roots of interregional inequality: spatial income distribution in the European regions pp. 27-40

André Carrascal-Incera and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

Mind the gap and the map: measuring distributional and spatial income polarisation pp. 41-60

Sergio J. Rey

Chasing opportunity: spillovers and drivers of US state population growth pp. 61-79

Sebastian Kripfganz and Vasilis Sarafidis

Technological change, knowledge diffusion and the growth of cities and regions: analytical, empirical and policy-making challenges pp. 80-94

Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés

Old, new, borrowed and BLUE: the twenty-first century spatial economic analysis toolkit pp. 95-109

Rachel Franklin, Devika Jain and Zifu Wang

Causality in spatial economic analysis: with reference to the London Green Belt and house prices pp. 110-127

Bernard Fingleton

Mathematical modelling of urban sprawl pp. 128-148

Marc Barthelemy and Ulysse Marquis

Reshoring in a regional perspective: a research agenda pp. 149-165

Roberta Capello

Digital network centrality and the structure of goods trade pp. 166-182

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Volume 20, issue 4, 2025

Spatial economic analysis in a globalised world pp. 559-564

Ugo Fratesi, Maria Abreu, Steven Bond-Smith, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Carolin Ioramashvili, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Gianfranco Piras, Francesco Quatraro, Francesco Ravazzolo, Emmanouil Tranos, Dimitrios Tsiotas and Jihai Yu

A crooked ‘smile curve’? Reassessing the relationship between foreign direct investment and development pp. 565-585

Luca Bortolotti, Marta Marson and Donatella Saccone

Foreign direct investment attractiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa: spatial analysis of shared corridors pp. 586-610

Marius Bendoma, Nassibou Bassongui and Franky B. A. Kogueda

Spatial difference and dynamic evolution of innovative ability in China pp. 611-639

Kai Tang, Yu-ying Wang, Meng-yi Ren, Kun Zhang and Chun-Ping Chang

Complexity-based diversification strategies: a new method for ranking promising activities for regional diversification pp. 640-663

João P. Romero, Elton Freitas, Fabrício Silveira, Gustavo Britto, Fernanda Cimini and Frederico Jayme Jr

The geography of informality: the case of Colombia pp. 664-682

Karina Acosta, Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri, Daniel Lasso-Jaramillo and Alejandro Sarasti-Sierra

Incidence of synchronisation and spatial dependence on the amplitude of sub-national business cycles in emerging economies with inflation targeting pp. 683-704

Alcides J. Padilla and Jorge Quintero

Spatial clusters of poverty among rural women in Nigeria: analysis and underlying predictors pp. 705-727

Tolulope Rachael Jerumeh

Economic impacts of the Brazil’s Mariana dam disaster on different levels of neighbourhood pp. 728-750

Isabella Carraro Azevedo Batista and Vinícius de Azevedo Couto Firme

Precipitation and house price expectations – evidence from survey data pp. 751-767

Debasis Rooj, Abhishek Sachdeva and Reshmi Sengupta

On the political and socioeconomic geography of violence: Spatial heterogeneity and scale effects in Brazil pp. 768-780

Carlos Mendez and Mehak Sachdeva

Codes and data shared on public repositories by the authors of papers published in volume 19 (2024) of Spatial Economic Analysis pp. 781-783

The Editors

Correction pp. 784-784

The Editors

Volume 20, issue 3, 2025

New theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to spatial economics pp. 363-367

Ugo Fratesi, Maria Abreu, Steven Bond-Smith, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Carolin Ioramashvili, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Gianfranco Piras, Francesco Quatraro, Francesco Ravazzolo, Emmanouil Tranos, Dimitrios Tsiotas and Jihai Yu

Behavioural theory and regional development: nurturing cultures of possibility pp. 368-395

Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson

Multiscale geographically weighted quantile regression pp. 396-419

Allaa H. Elkady, Abdelnaser S. Abdrabou and Amira Elayouty

A spatial stochastic frontier model with fixed effects and endogenous environmental variables pp. 420-441

Massimo Giannini

Changes in domestic value added from exports: a structural decomposition approach pp. 442-456

Shohei Tokito, Fumiya Nagashima and Tesshu Hanaka

Cultural and creative industries and local economic growth: exploring the urban channel pp. 457-483

Roberto Dellisanti

Shaping the local business structure: drivers of firm location at the municipal level pp. 484-513

Fausto Pacicco, Massimiliano Serati and Andrea Venegoni

Do cruise passengers go off the beaten track? A spatial analysis based on mobile phone data pp. 514-533

Sebastien Bourdin, Bernard Elissalde, Françoise Lucchini, Gabriel Noiret and Ugo Parment

Spatial dynamics and price determinants in the local gasoline retail market: evidence from Greater Santiago pp. 534-557

Pablo A. Henríquez, Jose Acuña and Valentina Apablaza

Volume 20, issue 2, 2025

The urban dimension in spatial development: contributions from spatial economics pp. 169-174

Ugo Fratesi, Maria Abreu, Steven Bond-Smith, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Carolin Ioramashvili, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Gianfranco Piras, Francesco Quatraro, Francesco Ravazzolo, Emmanouil Tranos, Dimitrios Tsiotas and Jihai Yu

Agglomeration externalities or network externalities? Explaining productivity in Chinese urban regions pp. 175-196

Yuting Yang, Jiayi Lu, Freke Caset and Ben Derudder

The interplay between urban expansion, human capital accumulation and innovation performance in Chinese cities pp. 197-217

Chunliang Gao and Xing Xie

Urban vitality and built environment from the perspective of spatiotemporal heterogeneity pp. 218-241

Wanshu Wu, Lei Xu and Kai Zhao

Is agglomeration really crowded? The impact of urban spatial structure on return migration decisions pp. 242-265

Yue Zheng, Qiaoru Wang and Tingyu Liu

Working from a new home? Remote-work potential and urban out-migration in Sweden pp. 266-290

Miquel Correa

Transit-oriented development and effective supply on the tenant-occupied multifamily housing market in Washington, DC pp. 291-311

Jose Funes, Jeffery Sauer and Laixiang Sun

Determinants of housing rental prices in Seoul: applying explainable AI pp. 312-332

Tae-Young Kim, Eunil Park and Doojin Ryu

Spatiotemporal analysis of urban land prices: a distributional regression approach pp. 333-345

Felinto J. Costa, Rodrigo R. Pescim, Luiz R. Nakamura, Mariana R. Urbano, Viviane C. Silva and Thiago G. Ramires

Bayesian spatial analysis of US agricultural land values pp. 346-361

James Burnett, Donald J. Lacombe and Steven Wallander

The RSA Awards 2025: Spatial Economic Analysis pp. 362-362

The Editors

Volume 20, issue 1, 2025

Spillovers and small spatial scale analyses: contributions from spatial economics pp. 1-7

Ugo Fratesi, Maria Abreu, Steven Bond-Smith, Luisa Corrado, Jan Ditzen, Daniel Felsenstein, Franz Fuerst, Carolin Ioramashvili, Katarzyna Kopczewska, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Gianfranco Piras, Francesco Quatraro, Francesco Ravazzolo, Emmanouil Tranos, Dimitrios Tsiotas and Jihai Yu

Geographical distance, investment strategies and performance of venture capital: evidence from Chinese enterprises pp. 8-32

Jiaoe Wang, Fengyuan Liu, Jianjun Li, Delin Du and Jiafan Wu

A longitudinal analysis of local innovation in Italy: How do proximity measures matter? pp. 33-52

Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano and Gennaro Punzo

Spatial spillover effects in the labour market in a middle-income country pp. 53-71

Leonardo Morales, Mauricio Quiñones, Eleonora Davalos and Luis-Felipe Gaviria

Selection of spillover channels in spatial dynamic panel models using heterogeneous shrinkage on spatial parameters pp. 72-106

Yong Bao and Xiaoyan Zhou

Geographic disaggregation of household surveys. Modified estimators for correcting misclassification bias pp. 107-127

Alejandro Izaguirre

Shedding light on consumer sentiments: evidence from India pp. 128-146

Debasis Rooj, Anurag Banerjee, Reshmi Sengupta and Prasad Pathak

The role of emergency aid in mitigating the local effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Espírito Santo, Brazil pp. 147-167

Luiz Carlos de Santana Ribeiro, Gervásio Ferreira dos Santos, Rodrigo Barbosa de Cerqueira, José Firmino de Sousa Filho, Edna Moraes Tresinari and Antonio Ricardo Freislebem da Rocha