i am a fan of the spatial panel (love a good elhorst)! I sent [this paper](papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) to both JUE and RSUE and both editors were like 'interesting; needs reframe... everyone knows spatial effects matter...'
i was like ...but do they??
In this paper, I leverage a unique dataset containing unit-level observations on rental prices for units in Montgomery County, Maryland to build a series of hed