(VF)La « Bourgogne » et la « Champagne » évoquent toutes deux des vins de qualité. Mais ces deux régions hôtes de l’activité vitivinicole ne profitent pas de la même notoriété, particulièrement en tant que destination touristique. La présence d’un patrimoine vitivinicole au...

Intergovernmental yardstick competition is based on voters comparing the performance of their own elected government with what obtains in other jurisdictions. This mechanism can produce results that are favourable to voters but it may also be the case that it has consequences that are not...

Recent theoretical and empirical work generally often focus on the interdependence of nations and regions underlying that the economy of one country or region is not independent of the economies of others. However, these models generally ignores the impact of location and neighborhood in...

The aim of this paper is to consider the geographical dimension of data in the estimation of the convergence of European regions and to emphasize geographic spillovers in regional economic growth phenomena. In a sample of 138 European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we show that the...

Face aux perspectives d'élargissement de l'Union Européenne aux Pays d'Europe Centrale et Orientale, pouvoir évaluer quels seront les impacts des politiques d'intégration régionale sur la croissance économique des régions européennes et où se matérialiseront ces effets est un des...

The aim of this paper is to study the dynamics of European regional per capita product over time and space. This purpose is achieved by using the recently developed methods of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis. Using a sample of European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we find strong evidence...

This paper assesses the impact of structural funds on the manufacturing sector of 145 European regions in the context of a Verdoorn’s law for the period 1989-2004. Three main innovations are included. First, we pay attention to the nature of the cohesion objective under study. Second, the...

We extend the quadratic utility approach by Ottaviano et al. [19] and by Behrens [1] to the range of intermediate values of transport costs in or- der to investigate how asymmetric trade affects the regional distribution of economic activities. Asymmetry in trade is an endogenous result of price...

L'objectif de ce papier est d'analyser les caractéristiques multicentriques de l'Agglomération dijonnaise en étudiant l'organisation spatiale des activités économiques et de la population. L'étude se rapporte au territoire de la Communauté d'Agglomération dijonnaise (COMADI) qui est...

The aim of this paper is to integrate the geographical dimension of data in the estimation of the convergence of European regions and emphasize the importance of spatial effects in regional economic growth phenomena. In a sample of 122 European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we find strong...