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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bräuninger, Michael
• Niebuhr, Annekatrin

Titel

Agglomeration, Spatial Interaction and Convergence in the EU

Ist Teil von

• Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2008-01, Vol.128 (3), p.329-349

Ort / Verlag

Duncker & Humblot, Berlin

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial heterogeneity and spatial spillover effects. The spatial regimes model allows for different steady-state growth paths. In contrast to previous analyses, the regimes in this paper refer to spatial categories, i.e. we assume that agglomerations, urbanised and rural regions are characterised by group-specific steady-states. Moreover, the regression analysis considers the effects of interaction among neighbouring regions, possibly leading to a spatial dependence of regional growth rates. We check whether spatial dependence is caused by spatial spillovers or is based on country effects.