Evidence of political yardstick competition in france using a two-regime spatial durbin model with fixed effects

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 931-951

  Paul Elhorst, J ^a   Fréret, Sandy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EXPENDITURE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC SPENDING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 71249145746     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2009.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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