By applying the smile curve concept to regional value added growth rather than to levels, the paper claims that local value-added growth increases when a region is specialised in scarce natural resources or scarce human skills within a GVC. Under these circumstances, in fact, the region can...

In this paper, we examine the spatial configuration of Tunis metropolis. First, we use an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) in order to visualize the centrality of employment and population densities between 1994 and 2004. Second, we estimate, using spatial econometric models, three...

Relying on fiscal competition and yardstick competition models, this article proposes to highlight horizontal interactions existence within French local governments, extending classical analysis of interactions to level of public expenditures. By using French social public expenditures and...

Even thought the integration process is still been in UE, regional integration dynamics of space seems to be a crucial issue. The reflections engaged, the SDEC in particular, aim at promoting a wilful policy of polycentric adjustment of the European space. Thus, we are led to consider both the...

The spatial interactions between the areas express the existence of a spatial dependence also called autocorrelation. The modelization of these interactions requires the use of spatial weights matrix. In the literature, the matrix of adjacency and k-nearest neighbors are most usually used. We...