Since 2008 the Spatial Econometrics Association has promoted special issues of leading international journals, most of them collecting selected papers presented at the Association’s World Conferences.
Open call for papers
Journal of Regional Science
New Applied and Theoretical Insights from Spatial Statistics and Econometrics
Participants in SEA & SEW 2026 are invited to submit their paper. Edited by Julie Le Gallo (JRS Editor), with guest editors Giuseppe Arbia and Alain Pirotte.
Submission deadline: 1 October 2026 · publication expected early 2028
Past special issues
- 2008
Empirical Economics 34(1)Spatial EconometricsGuest editors: Giuseppe Arbia, Badi H. Baltagi - 2008Papers in Regional Science 87(3)New spatial econometric techniques and applications in regional scienceGuest editors: Giuseppe Arbia, Bernard Fingleton
- 2010Regional Science and Urban Economics 40(5)Advances in spatial econometricsGuest editors: Giuseppe Arbia, Harry H. Kelejian
- 2012Economic Modelling 29(1)Frontiers in spatial econometrics modellingGuest editors: Giuseppe Arbia, Enrique López-Bazo, Francesco Moscone
- 2013Spatial Economic Analysis 8(3)Spatial econometricsGuest editors: Giuseppe Arbia, Ingmar R. Prucha
- 2014Geographical Analysis 46(2)Advances in cross-sectional and panel data spatial econometric modelingGuest editors: Giuseppe Arbia, Christine Thomas-Agnan
- 2014The Review of Regional Studies 44(3)Spatial econometrics7th World Conference of the SEA — Washington DC, 2013Guest editors: Giuseppe Arbia, Gianfranco Piras, Ingmar R. Prucha
- 2016The Annals of Regional Science
- 2017Econometrics (MDPI)Recent developments in spatial econometrics10th World Conference of the SEA — Rome, 2016Guest editor: Giuseppe Arbia
- 2018Regional Science and Urban Economics 72New advances in spatial econometrics: interactions matterGuest editors: Nicolas Debarsy, Zhenlin Yang
- 2020Journal of Geographical Systems 22(1)Recent developments in spatial econometrics12th World Conference of the SEA — Vienna, 2018Guest editor: Nikolaos Antonakakis
- 2020–2023Journal of Spatial Econometrics volumes 1–4The official journal of the AssociationEditors-in-Chief: Giuseppe Arbia, Lung-Fei Lee, James P. LeSage
- 2024Spatial Economic Analysis 19(1)New developments in spatial econometric modelling16th World Conference of the SEA — Warsaw, 2022Guest editors: Katarzyna Kopczewska, J. Paul Elhorst
- 2025–2026Networks and Spatial Economics (Springer)Spatial econometrics19th World Conference of the SEA — Rabat, 2025Guest editor: Giuseppe Arbia
The Journal of Spatial Econometrics. Published by Springer from 2020 to 2023 (volumes 1–4), it was the official journal of the Spatial Econometrics Association. It is no longer receiving submissions; the full archive remains available on SpringerLink.
