Applied Econometrics Association

Preface Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Contributions to Spatial Econometrics and Spatial Statistics; A.Getis & J.Mur Theoretical Economic Geography and Spatial Econometrics: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Evidence; B.Fingleton PART II: SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS ESTIMATION Spatial Autoregressive Local Estimation; R.K.Pace & J.P.LeSage Aggregation Bias in Maximum Likelihood estimation of spatial Autoregressive Processes; T.Smith Econometric Estimation of a Spatial Dynamic Model in Continuous Space and Continuous Time: an Empirical Demonstration; K.P.Donaghy & M.Plotnikova Using Matrix Exponentials to Estimate Spatial Probit/Tobit Models; J.P.LeSage & R.K.Pace PART III: SPATIAL DEPENDENCE AND SPATIAL ERRORS Properties of Tests for Spatial Error Components: A Further Analysis; H.H.Kelejian & Y.Yuzefovich Some Proposals for Discriminating Between Spatial Processes; F.J.Trivez & J.Mur Serial and Spatial Error Dependence in Space-Time Models; J.P.Elhorst Spatial Dependence in the Evolution of Regional Income Distributions; S.J.Rey PART IV: SPATIAL PATTERNS AND LOCAL SPATIAL ANALYSIS On Connectropy; J.F.Kaashoek, J.H.P.Paelinck & H.G.Zoller Locally Weighted Regression and Time-Varying Distance Gradients; D.P.McMillen The Statistical Significance of the Maximum Local Statistic; P.A.Rogerson Detecting Spatial Clusters: A Bayesian Approach with Application to Identifying Disability Patterns in Mississippi and Alabama; X-A .Xu & S.Bao Bibliography Author Index Subject Index