A REGIONAL APPROACH TO THE METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC GRWOTH: EVIDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

Florin Teodor Boldeanu () and Ileana Tache ()
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Florin Teodor Boldeanu: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Ileana Tache: Transilvania University of Brasov

Journal of Smart Economic Growth, 2016, vol. 1, issue 1, 29-72

Abstract: The main goal of this study is to contribute to metropolitan economic growth literature by carrying out an analysis for 271 areas located in the EU between 2000 and 2013. For this objective the study uses several panel data estimation techniques, namely the GMM, System GMM and the QML estimation. To check the robustness of the results, the time period is divided in two (post and ante economic crisis) and by splitting the sample of metropolitan regions in two components, the Western more developed regions and the Central and South-Eastern (the formal communist states, except for Cyprus) areas. The results indicate that the industrial, construction and wholesale and retail trade sectors are positively linked with metropolitan growth. The agricultural, fishery and forestry sector is negatively influencing growth. The manufacturing and ITC sectors and migration are not statistically significant. Furthermore population density and size is more important than population growth and European enlargement did not have a substantial positive impact on metropolitan growth for the Central and South-Eastern regions.

Keywords: metropolitan economic growth; GMM; QML; EU; Economic sectors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C5 O15 O18 O47 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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