The importance of modeling spatial spillovers in public choice analysis

Public Choice

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 525-545

  LeSage, James P ^a   Dominguez, Matthew ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Spatial dependence; Spatial regression models; Spatial spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755192337     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-010-9714-6     Document Type: Article

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