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Overview

James P. LeSage is affiliated with Texas State University in the United States. Their research concentrates on economics, econometrics, and finance, producing work primarily in areas such as regional economics and spatial analysis, spatial and panel data analysis, firm innovation and growth, economic and environmental valuation, economic policies and impacts, business strategy and innovation, and issues related to poverty, education, and child welfare.

Their research output includes multiple recent publications. Some of these are:

  • Bayesian Model Averaging for Spatial Autoregressive Models Based on Convex Combinations of Different Types of Connectivity Matrices, 2020, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
  • Industry Networks and the Geography of Firm Behavior, 2021, Management Science
  • Network dependence in multi-indexed data on international trade flows, 2020, Journal of Spatial Econometrics
  • Industry Networks and the Geography of Firm Behavior, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Spillover effects in adoption of cash transfer programs by Latin American countries, 2020, Journal of Geographical Systems

Frequent co-authors in LeSage's collaborative work include William Grieser, Morad Zekhnini, Nicolas Debarsy, Manfréd M. Fischer, and Diego E. Vacaflores.

Their publications frequently appear in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Management Science, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Spatial Econometrics, and Journal of Geographical Systems.

Best Publications

  • Introduction to spatial econometrics

    James P. LeSage

  • The Theory and Practice of Spatial Econometrics

    James P. LeSage

  • Spatial Growth Regressions: Model Specification, Estimation and Interpretation

    James P. Lesage;Manfred M. Fischer

  • The Biggest Myth in Spatial Econometrics

    James P. LeSage;R. Kelley Pace

  • SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC MODELING OF ORIGIN-DESTINATION FLOWS*

    James P. LeSage;R. Kelley Pace

  • Bayesian Estimation of Spatial Autoregressive Models

    James P. Lesage

  • Bayesian Estimation of Limited Dependent Variable Spatial Autoregressive Models

    James P. LeSage

  • What Regional Scientists Need to Know about Spatial Econometrics

    James P. LeSage

  • Spatial Econometric Models

    James P. LeSage;R. Kelley Pace

  • Spatial Statistics and Real Estate

    R. Kelley Pace;Ronald Barry;C. F. Sirmans

  • Interpreting dynamic space-time panel data models

    Nicolas Debarsy;Cem Ertur;James P. LeSage

  • QUANTIFYING KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS USING SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC MODELS

    Corinne Autant-Bernard;James P. LeSage

  • Using the variance structure of the conditional autoregressive spatial specification to model knowledge spillovers

    Olivier Parent;James P. LeSage

  • A Family of Geographically Weighted Regression Models

    James P. LeSage

  • Regression Analysis of Spatial Data

    James P. LeSage

  • A BAYESIAN PROBIT MODEL WITH SPATIAL DEPENDENCIES

    Tony E. Smith;James P. LeSage

  • A matrix exponential spatial specification

    James P. LeSage;R. Kelley Pace

  • Knowledge spillovers across Europe: Evidence from a Poisson spatial interaction model with spatial effects*

    James P. LeSage;Manfred M. Fischer;Thomas Scherngell

  • Bayesian Model Averaging for Spatial Econometric Models

    James P. LeSage;Olivier Parent

  • New Orleans business recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

    James P. LeSage;R. Kelley Pace;Nina Lam;Richard Campanella

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Kelley Pace
R. Kelley Pace Louisiana State University
Manfred M. Fischer
Manfred M. Fischer Vienna University of Economics and Business
Nina S. N. Lam
Nina S. N. Lam Louisiana State University
Badi H. Baltagi
Badi H. Baltagi Syracuse University
Jacques Poot
Jacques Poot University of Waikato
Peter Nijkamp
Peter Nijkamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Cathy Macharis
Cathy Macharis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Luc Anselin
Luc Anselin University of Chicago
Roberto Camagni
Roberto Camagni Polytechnic University of Milan
Roberta Capello
Roberta Capello Polytechnic University of Milan

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