Mostly pointless spatial econometrics?

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 172-191

  Gibbons, Stephen ^a   Overman, Henry G ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMETRICS; MODEL TEST; RESEARCH WORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860127310     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2012.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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