This paper investigates growth differences in the urban system of the EU12 over the last decades of the 20th Century. Models in which growth of real GDP p.c. and rates of population growth are the dependent variables are compared. This suggests that it makes sense to model GDP growth in a...

This paper investigates growth differences in the urban system of the EU12 for a data set relating to Functional Urban Regions comparing the results of "artisanal" methods of model selection with those obtained using general to specific model selection with PcGets. The artisanal approach tests...