Efficiency of the OLSE for regressions on two-dimensional grids with sinusoidal regressors and spatially correlated errors

Abstract

For spatial regressions with sinusoidal surfaces, the ordinary least squares estimator (OLSE) is shown to be asymptotically as efficient as the generalized least squares estimator (GLSE) in that the covariance matrices of the two estimators have the same nontrivial limit under the same normalization.