Cohesion Policy and Inequality Dynamics: Insights from a Heterogeneous Agents Macroeconomic Model

Herbert Dawid (), Philipp Harting and Michael Neugart
Additional contact information
Herbert Dawid: Department of Business Administration and Economics and Institute of Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University, Germany

No 5, Gecomplexity Discussion Paper Series from Action IS1104 "The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation"

Abstract: Regions within the European Union differ substantially not only with respect to per capita GDP, but also with respect to income inequality within the regions. This paper studies the effects of different types of technology-oriented cohesion policies, aiming at the reduction of regional differences, on the convergence of regions and the dynamics of income inequality within regions. In particular, policies are analyzed using a two-region agent-based macroeconomic model – the Eurace@Unibi model – where firms in the lagging region receive subsidies for investment in physical capital. It is demonstrated that the short-, medium- and long-term effects of the policies on per-capita output and between as well as within regional inequality differ substantially depending on how successful the policy is in incentivizing firms to choose best available capital vintages and on how flexible labor markets are in the targeted region.

Keywords: cohesion policies; technology adoption; agent-based model; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2014-04, Revised 2014-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cmp
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.gecomplexity-cost.eu/repec/cst/wpaper/geco_dp_5.pdf First version, 2014 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Cohesion policy and inequality dynamics: Insights from a heterogeneous agents macroeconomic model (2018)
Working Paper: Cohesion policy and inequality dynamics: insights from a heterogeneous agents macroeconomic model (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cst:wpaper:5

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Gecomplexity Discussion Paper Series from Action IS1104 "The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation"
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Fabio Ceccarani ().