We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between 2001 and 2006. The spatial Chow-Lin procedure, a method constructed by the authors, was used to construct on a NUTS-2 level a complete regional data for exports, imports and...

In this paper, we try to study globalisation between theories and facts by stressing the perverse effects of social, economic and political aspects. In other words we study the relation between globalisation and economic growth. Our empirical study is based on a panel model for an heterogeneous...

Using an extensive data base we estimate cross-section and panel growth regression using the MRW model and estimates of Total Factor Productivity with Solow and Hall and Jones methods. The data show an overall process of convergence, but it was uneven over the 1960-2010 years. Was the process...