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The following baker’s dozen of papers—constituting a unique document written by enthusiastic researchers and furnishing concrete evidence that Jean Paelinck is a very well appreciated friend of the scientific world—have been compiled as a lasting testimonial to the outstanding research, mentoring, teaching and service contributions of Jean Paelinck to science and society. Through his distinguished career and principal research accomplishments, Jean has established a legacy that should furnish a research endowment upon which regional science can draw for many years to come. Adapting a quote by Stephen Hawking, “Equations are just the boring part of [econometrics]. [Jean] attempt[s] to see things in terms of [space].” In writing to us, Professor Mignolet, who as a student first met Jean in 1975, provided an anecdote that exemplifies this very point:
No sooner was I sitting in his office than he threw a string of equations on the blackboard.... His proposed solution method [was based on] the consider[ation] that a policy had not been implemented.
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Griffith, D.A., Amrhein, C.G. (1998). Introduction: Focus on Jean Paelinck. In: Griffith, D.A., Amrhein, C.G., Huriot, JM. (eds) Econometric Advances in Spatial Modelling and Methodology. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 35. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2899-6_1
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