This book investigates the EU’s regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio … empirical analysis covering the whole EU-25. An in-depth comparative analysis with the United States is also included, providing … evidence produced in the book is extensively applied to the analysis of EU development policies. …

European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions from 2009 to 2017. To estimate region-specific elasticities, we employ a latent class …. Moreover, we observe that changes in government quality and regional authority influence the ability of EU regions to leverage …