PUBLICATIONS

1.     Articles on journals listed in _ Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports 2006

[1]. A class of spatial statistical methods in the empirical analysis of spatial clusters, (G. Espa, G. e Quah, D.) Empirical Economics, 34, 81-103, 2008. IF (from 2008)

 

 [2] Nonlinear Regional Economic Dynamics: Continuous-Time Specification, Estimation and Stability Analysis (with Piras G. and Donaghy K.) ( forthcoming on Journal of Geographical Systems 2008. IF (from 2008)

 

[3]  Spatial dependence in the tails of air pollutant distributions: alternatives to the spatial correlogram (with Copetti M. and Lafratta, G.) Forthcoming on Environmetrics, 2008  IF

 

_[4] “Spatial Sampling Plans to Monitor the 3-D Spatial Distribution of Extremes in Soil Pollution Surveys” (with G. Lafratta and C. Simeoni) forthcoming on _Computational Statistics and Data Analysi, IF: 0.73

 

[5] “Testing the Stochastic Convergence of Italian Regions using panel data”, (with M. Costantini) forthcoming on Applied Economics Letters. 2006, 13, 775–783. IF 0,227

 

[6] “Exploring non linear dependence in the tails of bivariate marginals of a random field” (with G. Lafratta) Geographical analysis, 37, (4), 423-437. 2005 IF: 0,436

 

[7]. “Continuous time modelling of regional convergence”, (with J. H. P. Paelinck), International Regional Science Review, 26, 3, 342-362, 2004

 

[8]. “Convergence or divergence? Modeling the interregional dynamics of EU regions, 1985-1999”,_ (with J. H. P. Paelinck) Geographical Systems, 5, 291-314, 2004.

 

[9]_ “Error propagation computing vegetation indices based on Landsat imagery” (with R. Haining and D. Griffith, Environmental and ecological statistic,. Vol. 10,_ 2, 375-396, 2003

 

[10]_ “Spatial sampling design optimized under unisotropic superpopulation models” (with. G. Lafratta), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series c – Applied Statistics, 2002 IF: 0.641

 

[11]_ “The role of spatial effects in the empirical analysis of regional concentration” International Journal of Geographical Systems, 3, 3, 271-281, 2001.

 

[12]_ “Modelling the geography of economic activities in a continuos space” Papers in Regional Sciences, 80, 411-424, 2001; IF: 0,475

 

[13] _“Contextual classification in image analysis: an assessment of accuracy of ICM” (with R.Benedetti and G. Espa), Computational Statistics Data Analysis, 443-455, 1999. IF: 0.733

 

[14] _“Error propagation in overlay operations” (with R. Haining and D. Griffith”) International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, Vol. 12, n. 2, 1998. IF: 1,562

 

[15] _“Evaluating and updating the sample design: the case of the concentration of SO₂ in Padua” (Lafratta G, Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 1997.

 

[16]. “Effects of MAUP on image classification” (with R.Benedetti and G. Espa) Journal of Geographical Systems, 1996.

 

[17] _"Heterogeneity of attribute sampling error in spatial data sets" (with D. Griffith and R. Haining), Geographical Analysis, vol.26, 4, October 1994, pagg. 300-320.IF: 0,436

 

[18] _"The use of GIS in spatial surveys", International. Statistical Review, 61, 2, Agosto, 1993, pagg. 339-359. IF: 0.771

 

[19] _"Error propagation through map operations" (with R. P. Haining), Technometrics, Vol. 35, 3, Agosto, 1993, pagg. 293-305. IF: 1.25

 

[20] _"Integrating GIS and spatial data analysis: problems and possibilities", (with Goodchild, Haining, Wise and 11 more), International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences, 6, 5, pagg. 407-423, 1993. IF 1,562

 

[21] _"On second order non-stationarity in two-dimensional lattice processes", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 9, pagg. 147-160, North Holland, 1990. IF: 0.733

 

 

Total IF: 9.559

 

 

2. Other refereed journals

 

[22]. Does evidence on regional convergence depend on the estimation strategy ? Results from a sample of  NUTS-2 European regions, 1977-2000. (with Le Gallo, J. and Piras, G) (forthcoming Spatial Economic Analysis) 2008.

[23]_ “Alternative approaches to regional convergence exploiting both spatial and temporal information”, Estudios de Economia Aplicada, 22(2): 429-448, 2005.

[24]_ “Spatial Dependence and Non-linearities in Regional Growth Behaviour in Italy”, (with R. Basile) forthcoming on Statistica, Bologna. 2005

[25]_ “Spatial correlation estimates based on satellite observations corrected with the prior knowledge on sensor devices’ technical characteristics”, (with G. Lafratta)_ Statistica, LXIII, 2, 249-263, 2003, Bologna.

[26]_ “Bivariate Value-at-risk”, Statistica, 2003, anno LXII, 2, 231-247.

 

[27] “Two critiques to the statistical measures of spatial concentration and regional convergence”, International Advances in Economic Research, Volume 6, Number 3, August 2000.

 

[28] "Modelling error propagation in maps: arithmetic operations" (with Haining R. P. and Griffith D. A.), Cartography & Geographical Information Science, Vol. 26,. 297-315, 1999.

 

[29] “Statistical modelling of archaeological sites as non stationary Cox processes and its use in forecasting”, (with G. Espa), Archeologia e Calcolatori, Roma, 1996.

 

[30] “Forecasting statistical modelling of archeological site location”, (with G. Espa), Archeologia e Calcolatori, Roma, 1996.

 

[31] "The use of GIS in spatial and spatio-temporal surveys", (with M. Coli), Bullettin of the International Statistical Institute, Vol. 50, 3,_ 24, 1-28, Il Cairo, 1991.

 

[32] "The dampening effect on high order spatial autocorrelation in irregular lattices", Metron, Volume XLVI, 1-4,. 459-488, Roma, 1989.

 

[33] "Sull'analisi di serie spaziali non stazionarie: un metodo basato sul ricampionamento", Statistica, 4, 553-562, 1989.

 

[34] "Diseguaglianze territoriali", Rassegna Economica, 3, Anno LIII, 569-596, Ufficio Studi, Banco di Napoli, Napoli, Luglio-Settembre, 1989.

 

[35] The modifiable areal unit problem and the spatial autocorrelation problem: towards a_ joint approach", Metron, Volume XLIV, 1-4, 391-407, Dicembre 1986, Roma.

 

3. Articles on refereed books

 

[36] “Uncertainty and error propagation in map analyses involving arithmetic and overlay operations: inventory and porspect” (with R. Haining and D. Griffith) in Spatial accuracy assessment, Edited by Kim Lowell and Annick Jaton, Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, Michigan, 11-25, 1999.

 

[37] "Aggregation over time space and individuals in economic modelling: a generating mechanism approach", Chapter 6 of the book Continuous time econometrics, Edited by G. Gandolfo, Chapman and Hall editori, 1992, Londra.

 

[38] "Statistical effects of spatial data transformations: a proposed general framework", in Accuracy of spatial databases, Edited by M. Goodchild and S. Gopal, Taylor & Francis,. 249-259, Londra, 1989.

 

[39] "On the simulation of two-dimensional stationary stochastic processes: a comparison of_ different approaches", Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium in Computational Statistics, Short Communications and posters, Edited by De Antoni, Lauro and Rizzi, Physica-Verlag,_ 17 - 18, Roma, 1986.

 

[40] "Problems in the estimation of the spatial autocorrelation function arising from the form of the weights matrix" in Transformations through space and time, Edited by D.Griffith and R.P. Haining, Martinus Nijhoff Editore,. 294-308, Dordrecht, 1986.

 

 

4. Books

 

 

[41]_ Spatial Econometrics: Statistical foundations and applications to regional convergence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,_ Marzo 2006.

 

[42] "Spatial data configuration in statistical analysis of regional economics and related_ problems", Advanced Statistical Theory and Applied Econometrics, Kluwer Academic Publisher: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1989, pp. xiv+ 256.

 

 

5. Other publications: 74 more publications as articles, books, contributions to edited books, reviews and edited special issues.

 

 

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