Giuseppe Arbia (born July 3, 1958) is an Italian statistician. He is known for his contributions to the field of

spatial statistics Spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which studies entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techniques, many still in their early deve ...

and

spatial econometrics Spatial econometrics is the field where spatial analysis and econometrics intersect. The term “spatial econometrics” was introduced for the first time by the Belgian economist Jean Paelinck (universally recognised as the father of the discipline ...

. In 2006 together with

Jean Paelinck Jean Henri Paul Paelinck (born 4 July 1930) is a Belgian economist and Distinguished Service Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is known for his work in econometrics, and he coined the term "spat ...

he founded the Spatial Econometrics Association, which he has been chairing ever since.

Education and career

Giuseppe Arbia earned his bachelor's degree cum laude from

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in 1981, and the Doctor of Philosophy from

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in 1987. In 1994 he become full professor. He currently holds the chair of Economic Statistics at the

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in Milan and he is also Lecturer at the

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in Lugano. He is the Leading Editor of the book series Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics, by Elsevier, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spatial Econometrics, by Springer-Verlag and Director of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute. In his career he published 8 books and more than 200 articles, book chapters and reviews. He is credited with coining

Arbia's law of geography Arbia’s law of geography states, "Everything is related to everything else, but things observed at a coarse spatial resolution are more related than things observed at a finer resolution." Originally proposed as the 2nd law of geography, this is ...

, also known as the second law of geography.

Selected works

Books

*Spatial Microeconometrics (with G. Espa and D. Giuliani), Routledge, , 2021. *A primer for Spatial Econometrics: with applications in R. Texts in Econometrics, Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014. *Spatial Econometrics: Statistical foundations and applications to regional convergence, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, , March, 2006. *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.

Articles and book chapters

*Arbia G, Bassi, F. and Falorsi, P. Observed and estimated prevalence of COVID-19 in Italy: How to estimate the total cases from medical swabs data, Science of the Total Environment, 2020. *Arbia G, Elhorst, JP and Piras, G, Growth and convergence in a multi-regional model with space-time dynamics, Geographical Analysis, 42, 3, 338–355, 2010. *Arbia G, Battisti, M and Di Vaio, G, Institutions and geography: empirical test of spatial growth models in European regions, Economic Modelling, 27, 12–21, 2009. *Arbia G, Espa, G. and Quah, D., A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in space, Empirical Economics, 34, 1, 81–103, 2008. *Arbia G, and Lafratta, G, Anisotropic spatial sampling designs for urban pollution Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series c – Applied Statistics, 51, 2, 2002, 223-234 *Arbia G, The role of spatial effects in the empirical analysis of regional concentration, International Journal of Geographical Systems, 3, 3, 271–281, 2001. *Arbia G, Modelling the geography of economic activities on a continuous space, Papers in Regional Sciences, 80, 411–424, 2001. *Arbia G, Haining R. P. and Griffith D. A.Error propagation in raster GIS: overlay operations, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 12,2, 145–167, 1998. * Arbia, G., Benedetti, R. and Espa, G. 'Effects of the MAUP on image classification', Geographical Systems, 3, pp. 123-4, 1996. *Arbia G, The use of GIS in spatial surveys", International Statistical Review, 61, 2, 339–359, 1993.

References

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