Empirical growth models with spatial effects*

Bernard Fingleton () and Enrique López‐Bazo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Enrique Lopez-Bazo

Papers in Regional Science, 2006, vol. 85, issue 2, 177-198

Abstract: Abstract. Recent contributions to the regional science literature have considered spatial effects in empirical growth specifications. In the case of spatial dependence, following theoretical arguments from new economic geography, and endogenous growth models, this phenomenon has been associated with the existence of externalities that cross regional borders. However, despite the general consensus that interactions or externalities are likely to be the major source of spatial dependence, they have been modelled in a rather ad hoc manner in most existing empirical studies. In contrast, we advocate basing the analysis on structural growth models which include externalities across economies, applying the appropriate spatial econometrics tools to test for their presence and estimate the magnitude of these externalities in the real world.

Date: 2006
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (180)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00074.x

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:presci:v:85:y:2006:i:2:p:177-198

Access Statistics for this article

Papers in Regional Science is currently edited by Jouke van Dijk

More articles in Papers in Regional Science from Wiley Blackwell
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().