The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions

Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma (), Gernot Doppelhofer () and Martin Feldkircher
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jesus Crespo Cuaresma

Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck

Abstract: We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country fixed effects and (3) the cross-section of regions with a spatial autoregressive (SAR) structure. We investigate the existence of parameter heterogeneity by allowing for interactions of potential explanatory variables with geographical dummies as extra regressors. We find remarkable differences between the determinants of economic growth implied by differences between regions and those within regions of a given country. In the cross-section of regions, we find evidence for conditional convergence with speed around two percent. The convergence process between countries is dominated by the catching up process of regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), whereas convergence within countries is mostly a characteristic of regions in old EU member states. We also find robust evidence of positive growth of capital cities, a highly educated workforce and a negative effect of population density.

Keywords: Model uncertainty; spatial autoregressive model; ddterminants of economic growth; European regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C15 C21 O52 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2008-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-geo, nep-tra and nep-ure
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Journal Article: The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions (2014)
Working Paper: The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions (2009)
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