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Regional Income Inequality and Convergence Processes in the EU-25
Paas, Tiiu; Schlitte, Friso - 2006
This paper deals with the development of regional income disparities and convergence processes in the countries of the … the period 1995 - 2003. We use the two classical concepts of s – and ß-convergence. Furthermore, spatial econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295545
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Regional income inequality and convergence processes in the EU-25
Paas, Tiiu; Schlitte, Friso - 2007
This paper deals with the development of disparities in regional per capita GDP and convergence processes in the … inequality in order to show the development of between- and within-country disparities. Secondly, we conduct a formal Ø-convergence … centre of Europe. However, the convergence process has been driven mainly by national factors. In the course of this process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305511
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Agglomeration, Spatial Interaction and Convergence in the EU
Bräuninger, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2005
We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295468
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Age Structure and Regional Income Growth
Brunow, Stephan; Hirte, Georg - 2005
A spatial econometrics cross-section analysis of the NUTS2 regions of the EU15 is carried out to examine whether the age structure of the regional population or differences in the regional age pattern affect growth of regional per capita income. We apply two parsimonious models of the age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296771
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Econometric evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy: a survey
Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - 2009
. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of … the various European regions. Investigating the impact of European Cohesion Policy on economic growth and convergence is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299177
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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178
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Agglomeration and Growth: Evidence from the Regions of Central and Eastern Europe
Vogel, Johanna - 2012
This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340932
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Aggregate and regional economic effects of new railway infrastructure
Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2009
Economists expect positive returns to investments in infrastructure. However a project with higher national returns might have less favourable effects on a regional level than the alternative. Therefore new infrastructure should also be assessed on a regional level, but econom(etr)ic evaluation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293987
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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273782
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Space and Growth
Abreu, Maria; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M. - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325168