<italic>Cet article s’intéresse au problème de l’endogénéité dans un cadre spatial. Nous analysons le cas où l’endogénéité provient d’une variable omise spatialement autocorrélée. Nous montrons, de façon théorique et à l’aide de simulations de Monte-Carlo, qu’une façon de...</italic>

The aim of this paper is to analyze the consequences of spatial dependence on regional growth and the convergence process. Based on a sample of 92 European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we show that the unconditional ?-convergence model is misspecified due to the presence of spatial...

The aim of this paper is to study the dynamics of regional disparities in the European Union over the period from 1980-1995, based on a sample of 138 regions. First, the evolution of the form of the per capita GDP distribution is characterized by a test of ?-convergence and by means of...

This article focuses on the endogeneity problem in a spatial framework. We analyze the case where endogeneity comes from an omitted variable, which is spatially autocorrelated. We show, both theoretically and with Monte-Carlo simulations, that one way to decrease the omitted variable bias is to...