Automatic selection of a spatial weight matrix in spatial econometrics: Application to a spatial hedonic approach

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 429-444

  Seya, Hajime ^a   Yamagata, Yoshiki ^a   Tsutsumi, Morito ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Spatial Durbin model; Spatial econometrics; Spatial lag model; Spatial weight matrix; Trans dimensional simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ECONOMETRICS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84875619853     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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