空間經(jīng)濟分析是一個開創(chuàng)性的經(jīng)濟學(xué)期刊,致力于空間經(jīng)濟學(xué)的理論和方法的發(fā)展,發(fā)表的兩個世界領(lǐng)先的學(xué)術(shù)團體在空間經(jīng)濟學(xué)的分析,區(qū)域研究協(xié)會和英國和愛爾蘭的國際科學(xué)協(xié)會地區(qū)。空間觀點對我們理解全球范圍和城市和區(qū)域范圍內(nèi)的經(jīng)濟現(xiàn)象越來越重要。國際貿(mào)易的增長、新興市場的開放、世界經(jīng)濟的區(qū)域結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整以及全球化的總體戰(zhàn)略和政治意義，都再次強調(diào)了地理分析的重要性。城市和區(qū)域內(nèi)經(jīng)濟發(fā)展的空間變化也是知識分子研究的熱點問題，長期以來一直是國家、區(qū)域和地方政府政策倡議的重點。“新經(jīng)濟地理學(xué)”或“地理經(jīng)濟學(xué)”新理論的出現(xiàn)，刺激了經(jīng)濟學(xué)家對空間的覺醒。這一新理論為現(xiàn)有的空間經(jīng)濟學(xué)理論工具增加了一個重要的新維度，這些工具的廣泛目標(biāo)是分析地理和位置在經(jīng)濟現(xiàn)象中的作用。此外，空間經(jīng)濟分析越來越受到新分析方法的支持，人們對空間數(shù)據(jù)分析和數(shù)據(jù)可視化(GIS)的新模型和新技術(shù)產(chǎn)生了極大的興趣。空間計量經(jīng)濟學(xué)正日益被主流計量經(jīng)濟學(xué)家認(rèn)可為一門有價值的分支學(xué)科。

Spatial Economic Analysis is a pioneering economics journal dedicated to the development of theory and methods in spatial economics, published by two of the world's leading learned societies in the analysis of spatial economics, the Regional Studies Association and the British and Irish Section of the Regional Science Association International.A spatial perspective has become increasingly relevant to our understanding of economic phenomena, both on the global scale and at the scale of cities and regions. The growth in international trade, the opening up of emerging markets, the restructuring of the world economy along regional lines, and overall strategic and political significance of globalization, have re-emphasised the importance of geographical analysis. Spatial variations in economic development within cities and regions are also highly topical subjects for intellectual enquiry and have long been the focus of policy initiatives by national, regional and local governments. The awakening emphasis on space among economists has been stimulated by the emergence of a new breed of theory, namely ’new economic geography’or ’geographical economics’. This new theory adds a significant new dimension to the already existing theoretical tools of spatial economics, which broadly aim to analyse the role of geography and location in economic phenomena. Additionally, spatial economic analysis is increasingly being supported by the emergence of new analytical methods, with an explosion of interest in new models and techniques of spatial data analysis and data visualisation (GIS). Spatial econometrics is becoming increasingly recognised as a valuable sub-discipline among mainstream econometricians.