Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Holger Breinlich, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Jonathan Temple

Chapter 04 in Handbook of Economic Growth, 2014, vol. 2, pp 683-779 from Elsevier

Abstract: Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods, and data. We survey a range of modeling traditions, and some formal approaches to the hard problem of regional economics; namely, the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural experiments, spatial discontinuity designs, and structural models. Throughout, we give considerable attention to regional growth in developing countries. Finally, we highlight the potential importance of processes that are specific to regional decline, and which deserve greater research attention.

Keywords: Regional growth; Regional convergence; Regional decline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 R11 R12 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53540-5.00004-5

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