From the perspective that a region’s industrial development mostly builds upon existing local capability endowments to form trajectory of related diversifications, we argue regions with strong technology-based knowledge-intensive business service (T-KIBS) sector potentially have resource-based relatedness in their ‘knowledge space’ allowing manufacturing diversify production more easily towards...

Many databases involve ordered discrete responses in a temporal and spatial context, including, for example, land development intensity levels, vehicle ownership, and pavement conditions. An appreciation of such behaviors requires rigorous statistical methods, recognizing spatial effects and dynamic processes. This study develops a dynamic spatial ordered probit (DSOP) model in order to capture...

This is an introduction to a five-volume collection of papers on financial econometrics to be published by Edward Elgar Publishers in 2007. Financial econometrics is one of the fastest growing branches of economics today, both in academia and in industry. The increasing sophistication of financial models requires equally sophisticated methods for their empirical implementation, and in recent ye...