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The European Regional Convergence Process, 1980-1995: Do Spatial Regimes and Spatial Dependence Matter?
Catherine BaumontJulie Le GalloCem Ertursubject
AERES A Economie Gestion - CoNRS37-R2 - EconLitspatial dependence0211 other engineering and technologies02 engineering and technologyjel:C21Gross domestic productconvergence club convergence spatial econometrics European regions spatial regimes spatial autocorrelation050602 political science & public administrationEconometricsEconomics[ SHS.ECO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economies and financesGrowth rateSpatial dependence[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceSpatial analysisComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSGeneral Environmental ScienceConvergence clubsconvergence05 social sciencesjel:C51General Social Sciences021107 urban & regional planningConvergence (economics)[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Financespatial regimes0506 political scienceSpatial heterogeneityspatial econometricsSpatial econometricsjel:R11geographic spilloversjel:R15description
International audience; The authors show that spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity matter in the estimation of the ß-convergence process among 138 European regions over the 1980 to 1995 period. Using spatial econometrics tools, the authors detect both spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity in the form of structural instability across spatial convergence clubs. The estimation of the appropriate spatial regimes spatial error model shows that the convergence process is different across regimes. The authors also estimate a strongly significant spatial spillover effect: the average growth rate of per capita GDP of a given region is positively affected by the average growth rate of neighboring regions.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-07-19 |