Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?

Olivier Meunier (), Michel Mignolet () and Marie-Eve Mulquin ()
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Olivier Meunier: Centre de Recherches en Economie Régionale et Politique Economique (CERPE)
Marie-Eve Mulquin: Centre de Recherches en Economie Régionale et Politique Economique (CERPE)

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2007, issue 10, 155-170

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how national interpersonaltransfer policies affect regions’ economic growth. Reviewing the economic literature,we found only incidental evidences and contradictory conclusions. Our objective isto provide some statistical evidence of the relation between interregional interpersonalredistribution towards poor European regions and their relative growth. Usingsome recent developments in the field of spatial data analysis, we found that interpersonaltransfers do not seem to affect negatively the economic growth of poor Europeanregions, while it is not possible to assert their impact on rich regions.

Keywords: Income transfers; regional growth; spatial dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 R10 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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