Regional growth in Western Europe: Detecting spatial misspecification using the R environment

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-297

  Bivand, Roger ^a   Brunstad, Rolf ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Open source software; Regional growth; Spatial econometrics; Statistical computing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749411056     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00086.x     Document Type: Article

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