Research:

• Spatial statistical modeling
• Application of Bayesian methods to regional and urban econometric modeling
• Bayesian spatial econometrics

Recent Publications:

• LeSage, James P. and R. Kelley Pace Introduction to Spatial Econometrics 2009, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York.
• Pace, R. Kelley and James P. LeSage, "A Sampling Approach to Estimating the Log Determinant Used in Spatial Likelihood Problems," forthcoming in Journal of Geographical Systems.
• Kirby, Dustin K. and James P. LeSage, "Changes in commuting to work times over the 1990 to 2000 period," forthcoming in Regional Science & Urban Economics.
• LeSage, James P., "An Introduction to Spatial Econometrics," Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 2008, Volume 123, number 3, pp. 19-44.
• Autant-Bernard, Corinne, James P. LeSage, and Olivier Parent, "Firm innovation strategies: a spatial cohort multinomial approach," in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2007, Volume 87-88, July-Dec, pp. 63-82.
• LeSage, James P. and Manfred M. Fischer, "Spatial Growth Regressions: Model Specification, Estimation and Interpretation," Spatial Economic Analysis, 2008, Volume 3, number 3, pp. 275-304.
• LeSage, J. P. and R. K. Pace, "Spatial econometric modeling of origin-destination flows," Journal of Regional Science, 2008, Volume 48, Issue 5, pp. 941-967.
• LeSage, James P. and Wolfgang Polasek, "Incorporating transportation network structure in spatial econometric models of commodity flows," Spatial Economic Analysis, 2008, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 225-245.
• Pace, R. Kelley, and James P. LeSage "A Spatial Hausman Test," Economics Letters, 2008, Volume 101, pp. 282-284.
• LeSage, James P. and Joni Charles, "A Statistical Approach to Home Buyers' Revealed Preferences," Journal of Geographical Systems, 2008, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 1-21.
• Parent, Olivier and James P. LeSage "Using the variance structure of the conditional autoregressive specification to model knowledge spillovers," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, Volume 23, Issue 2, pp. 235-256.
• Ertur, Cem, Julie LeGallo and James P. LeSage, "Local versus Global Convergence in Europe: A Bayesian Spatial Econometric Approach," Review of Regional Studies, 2008, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 82-108.
• Holloway, Garth, Donald Lacombe and James P. LeSage, ``Spatial Econometric Issues for Bio-Economic and Land-Use modelling,'' Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, Volume 50, Issue 3, pp. 549-588.
• LeSage, James P. and R. Kelley Pace, ``A Matrix Exponential Spatial Specification,'' Journal of Econometrics, September, 2007, Volume 140, Issue 1, pp. 190-214.
• LeSage, James P., Manfred M. Fischer and Thomas Scherngell, ``Knowledge Spillovers across Europe, Evidence from a Poisson Spatial Interaction Model with Spatial Effects,'' Papers in Regional Science, Volume 86, Number 3 August 2007, pp. 393-421
• LeSage, James P. and Olivier Parent, ``Bayesian Model Averaging for Spatial Econometric Models,'' Geographical Analysis, 2007, Volume 39 Issue 3, pp. 241-267.
• Keith, Kristen and James P. LeSage, ``Robust decomposition analysis of wage differentials,'' Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, volume 29, number 4 , 2004, pp. 487 - 505.
• LeSage, James P. and R. Kelley Pace, ``Models for Spatially Dependent Missing Data,'' Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2004, Volume 29, number 2, pp. 233-254.
• Pace, R. Kelley, and James P. LeSage ``Techniques for Improved Approximation of the Determinant Term in the Spatial Likelihood Function,'' Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2004, Volume 45, pp. 179-196.

Recent Publications in Books:

• Pace, R. Kelley and James P. LeSage, ``Omitted variables biases of OLS and spatial lag models,'' forthcoming in Progress in Spatial Analysis: Theory and Computation, and Thematic Applications, A. Páez, J. Le Gallo, R. Buliung and S. Dall'Erba (Eds.) (Advances in Spatial Science, Springer).
• Fischer, Manfred M. and James P. LeSage, ``Spatial Econometric Modeling of Origin-Destination Flows,'' forthcoming in Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis: Software Tools, Methods and Applications, M. M. Fischer and A. Getis (Eds.) Springer.
• Parent, Olivier, and J.P. LeSage, ``Bayesian Model Averaging,'' forthcoming in Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis: Software Tools, Methods and Applications, M. M. Fischer and A. Getis (eds.) Springer.
• LeSage, James P. and R. Kelley Pace, ``An Introduction to Spatial Econometrics,'' forthcoming in Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis: Software Tools, Methods and Applications, M. M. Fischer and A. Getis (eds.) Springer.
• Pace. R. Kelley and James P. LeSage, ``Spatial Econometrics,'' forthcoming in Handbook of Spatial Statistics, A. E. Gelfand, P. Diggle, M. Fuentes and P. Guttorp (eds.), Taylor Francis (Chapman & Hall).
• R. Kelley Pace and James P. LeSage, ``Spatial Econometric Models, Prediction,'' in Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, Shashi Shekhar and Hui Xiong (eds.),Springer-Verlag, 2008 10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_1266.
• LeSage, James P., ``Spatial Econometrics,'' Encyclopedia of Social Measurement: Fields and Applications, (Academic Press, a division of Elsevier Science), Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, (editor-in-chief), 2005, pp. 613-619.
• Advances in Econometrics, Volume 18: Spatial and Spatiotemporal Econometrics, James P. LeSage and R. Kelley Pace, co-editors Elsevier, JAI, 2004.
• ``A Bayesian Probit Model with Spatial Dependencies'', co-authored with Tony E. Smith, University of Pennsylvania, in Advances in Econometrics: Volume 18: Spatial and Spatiotemporal Econometrics, (Oxford: Elsevier Ltd), James P. LeSage and R. Kelley Pace (eds.), 2004, pp. 127-160.
• ``Arc_Mat, a Toolbox for Using ArcView Shape Files for Spatial Econometrics and Statistics,'' co-authored with R. Kelley Pace, in Geographic Information Science, Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Max J. Egenhofer, Christian Freksa and Harvey J. Miller (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Springer-Verlag: Berlin), 2004, pp. 179-190.
• LeSage, James P. and R. Kelley Pace, ``Introduction'' to Advances in Econometrics: Volume 18: Spatial and Spatiotemporal Econometrics, (Oxford: Elsevier Ltd), James P. LeSage and R. Kelley Pace (eds.), 2004, pp. 1-32.
• Smith, Tony E. and James P. LeSage, ``A Bayesian Probit Model with Spatial Dependencies,'', in Advances in Econometrics: Volume 18: Spatial and Spatiotemporal Econometrics, (Oxford: Elsevier Ltd), James P. LeSage and R. Kelley Pace (eds.), 2004, pp. 127 160.
• LeSage, James P. and Michael Magura, "Using Bayesian Techniques for Data Pooling in Regional Payroll Forecasting," in The structural econometric time series analysis approach, edited by Arnold Zellner and Franz G. Palm, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 619 636. A reprint of an article that appeared in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1990, Volume 8, no. 1, pp. 127 135.
• LeSage, James P., "Forecasting Turning Points in Metropolitan Employment Growth Rates Using Bayesian Techniques," in The structural econometric time series analysis approach, edited by Arnold Zellner and Franz G. Palm, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 637 655. A reprint of an article that appeared in: Journal of Regional Science, 1990, Volume 30. No. 4, pp. 533 548.

Externally Funded Research:

• 2007-2010, $356,000 "Collaborative Research: (DRU) Modeling Business Return Amid Post-Disaster Uncertainties: New Orleans After Katrina," Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) FY 2007 Competition DRU: Disasters and Decision Making., with co-PI's from LSU and Tulane.
• 2007-2009, $ 211,543, "Modeling Business Return in New Orleans after Katrina: Its Implications for Gulf of Mexico Economic Recovery," Gulf of Mexico Regional SEA Proposal Program, with co-PI's from LSU and Tulane.
• 2002 04, $130,000 "Discrete Choice Spatial Models," National Science Foundation BCS0136229, J.P. LeSage PI, with co PI R.K. Pace.
• 2002 04, $130,000 "Spatially Additive Models," National Science Foundation BCS 0136193, R.K. Pace PI, with co PI J.P. LeSage.