Regional productivity growth in the EU: An assessment of recent developments

Ilias Kostarakos

No 2023-05, JRC Working Papers on Territorial Modelling and Analysis from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: The level and growth rates of Total Factor Productivity estimates have been extensively used as a means of assessing the level of efficiency in production across regions as well as a source of the observed differences in economic performance. This paper, focusing on a sample of 242 EU NUTS2 regions spanning the 2000-2020 period provides a time series of TFP estimates, based on a new dataset of regional level capital stocks, and documents significant heterogeneity in terms of TFP developments across regions and groups of regions. The evidence suggest that TFP can account for up to 80% of the observed income differences, while it is made evident that during the period covered by the sample convergence in terms of TFP was weakened.

Keywords: production function; total factor productivity; development accounting; convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 E10 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2023-05
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