Regional Externalities And Growth: Evidence From European Regions

Enrique Lopez-Bazo (), Esther Vayá and Manuel Artís ()

Journal of Regional Science, 2004, vol. 44, issue 1, pages 43-73

Abstract: This paper models externalities of production across regional economies. Under the assumption that knowledge diffuses without political or administrative barriers, we derive externalities that affect the steady state and the process of growth of each economy. The empirical counterpart of the reduced form equation summarizing the process of growth allows us to test for the presence of regional spillovers and to measure their magnitude. Our results for a sample of European regions show that spillovers are far from negligible, are robust to the consideration of variables within each region, and may cause nondecreasing returns at the spatial aggregate level. The paper also relates previous empirical evidence on spatial dependence in growth studies to the externalities modeled here. Copyright Blackwell Publishers, 2004

Date: 2004
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