Globalisation, Scale, and Interaction in Spatial Modelling

Modelling for Globalisation

INTRODUCTION The world is getting smaller and smaller. All participants to this conference are the best example for that: we come from all over the world to discuss themes related to our daily food. Living in a small world has great advantages but also some drawbacks. We like to think we are ready for a major up scaling of our food supplies, but are we really? What do we need to answer to this ...

Inflation and globalisation: a modelling perspective

This paper examines some standard open-economy New Keynesian models to address the question of how globalisation affects the inflation process. Specifically, it investigates how the Phillips curve for consumer price inflation in a country is affected by openness, and how the optimal choice of monetary policy is influenced by openness. The paper compares models that assume producer currency pric...

Principles of Neural Spatial Interaction Modelling

The focus of this paper is on the neural network approach to modelling origin-destination flows across geographic space. The novelty about neural spatial interaction models lies in their ability to model non-linear processes between spatial flows and their determinants, with few – if any – a priori assumptions of the data generating process. The paper draws attention to models based on the theo...

From Conventional to Neural Spatial Interaction Modelling

Spatial Interaction Modelling on theConnection Machine 200

Spatial interaction models are used to simulate interactions between residents in a given area and some facility. Principal factors innuencing the degree of interaction are the distance from a household to the facility, the size and type of population within the area, the attractiveness of the facility and the competition from other facilities in the area. The spatial interaction model discusse...