空間經濟分析是一個開創性的經濟學期刊,致力于空間經濟學的理論和方法的發展,發表的兩個世界領先的學術團體在空間經濟學的分析,區域研究協會和英國和愛爾蘭的國際科學協會地區?？臻g觀點對我們理解全球范圍和城市和區域范圍內的經濟現象越來越重要。國際貿易的增長、新興市場的開放、世界經濟的區域結構調整以及全球化的總體戰略和政治意義，都再次強調了地理分析的重要性。城市和區域內經濟發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、區域和地方政府政策倡議的重點?！靶陆洕乩韺W”或“地理經濟學”新理論的出現，刺激了經濟學家對空間的覺醒。這一新理論為現有的空間經濟學理論工具增加了一個重要的新維度，這些工具的廣泛目標是分析地理和位置在經濟現象中的作用。此外，空間經濟分析越來越受到新分析方法的支持，人們對空間數據分析和數據可視化(GIS)的新模型和新技術產生了極大的興趣。空間計量經濟學正日益被主流計量經濟學家認可為一門有價值的分支學科。

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.