Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46024 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5227
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are incorporated via spatial errors terms and via a spatial lag dependent variable and where the heterogeneity in the panel is incorporated via an error component specification. We generalize the approach of Wang and Kockelman (2007) and propose joint and conditional Lagrange Multiplier tests for spatial autocorrelation and random effects for this spatial SUR panel model. The small sample performance of the proposed estimators and tests are examined using Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to hedonic housing prices in Paris illustrates these methods. The proposed specification uses a system of three SUR equations corresponding to three types of flats within 80 districts of Paris over the period 1990-2003. We test for spatial effects and heterogeneity and find reasonable estimates of the shadow prices for housing characteristics.
Subjects: 
hedonic housing prices
Lagrange multiplier tests
maximum likelihood
panel spatial dependence
spatial lag
spatial error
SUR
JEL: 
C31
C33
R21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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