Mitze, Timo - 2010 - First incomplete version: February 2010
of a dynamic panel data model for German states between 1970 and 2006. Our preferred specification relates changes in …-run perspective in a co-integration model. Here we specify a Panel-ECM and look at its short run adjustment to judge about the share … smoothening characteristics of income transfers to the East. As a robustness check we also apply the Panel-ECM with spatially …