Pittau, Maria Grazia - In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 67 (2005) 2, pp. 135-161
Cross-sectional distribution of per capita (log) GDP across the European Union regions from 1977 to 1996 is analysed. Kernel density estimates reveal a multimodal structure of the distribution during the 1970s and early 1980s, and a tendency towards unimodality since the mid-1980s. The...