Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122058 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 749
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
This paper considers spatial autoregressive panel data models and extends their analysis to the case where the spatial coefficients differ across the spatial units. It derives conditions under which the spatial coefficients are identified and develops a quasi maximum likelihood (QML) estimation procedure. Under certain regularity conditions, it is shown that the QML estimators of individual spatial coefficients are consistent and asymptotically normally distributed when both the time and cross section dimensions of the panel are large. It derives the asymptotic covariance matrix of the QML estimators allowing for the possibility of non-Gaussian error processes. Small sample properties of the proposed estimators are investigated by Monte Carlo simulations for Gaussian and non-Gaussian errors, and with spatial weight matrices of differing degree of sparseness. The simulation results are in line with the paper's key theoretical findings and show that the QML estimators have satisfactory small sample properties for panels with moderate time dimensions and irrespective of the number of cross section units in the panel, under certain sparsity conditions on the spatial weight matrix.
Subjects: 
Spatial panel data models
Heterogeneous spatial lag coefficients
Identification
Quasi maximum likelihood (QML) estimators
Non-Gaussian errors
JEL: 
C21
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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