Geography and governance: Does space matter?

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 625-640

  Seldadyo, Harry ^a   Paul Elhorst, J ^a   De Haan, Jakob ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct effects; Governance; Indirect effects; Spatial dependence

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952497871     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2009.00273.x     Document Type: Article

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