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• These results indicate that despite the positive and statistically significant influences of income and government regulation, the conduct of neighboring states has a positive effect on the intention to abide by the CoC of responsible fishing.
• spatial models start by assuming that the values observed at location depend on the values measured at neighboring locations.
• Spatial data also give rise to the problem of simultaneity,
• simultaneity can potentially lead to problems because the number of parameters in the model can quickly overwhelm the available sample size. The solution to this difficulty is to impose a structure on the spatial interactions.
• Typically, the spatial weighting matrix is defined in terms of the inverse distance