Raising the bar (23)

This editorial summarizes the papers in issue 18(1) (2023). Thefirst paper sets out a game-theoreticduopolistic spatial model to investigate whether online retailing causes more transportation-relatedemissions than offline retailing. The second paper proposes a methodology for statistically downscalingprojected gross domestic product (GDP). The third paper presents a Bayesian approach for theestimation of a spatial weight matrix. The fourth paper proposes a two-step spatial non-parametricestimator for the distribution dynamics approach to study income convergence, extended with spatiallydependent error terms. Thefifth paper combines a gravity-RAS approach with the estimation of aneconometric gravity model when regional export and import totals are available but interregional tradedata are not. The sixth paper estimates the impact of country-specific immigrants settled in 611 Italianregions on the arrival of new immigrants in destination and adjacent regions. The seventh paperinvestigates the impact of the market potential of a region on individual wages. The eighth paper testswhether female labour force participation rates vary with past participation rates in their own andneighbouring counties