New Estimates of Regional GDP in Spain, 1860-1930

Julio Martinez-Galarraga

No 177, Working Papers in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia

Abstract: This paper presents a new regional database on GDP in Spain for the years 1860, 1900, 1914 and 1930. Following Geary and Stark (2002), country level GDP estimates are allocated across Spanish provinces. The results are then compared with previous estimates. Further, this new evidence is used to analyze the evolution of regional inequality and convergence in the long run. According to the distribution dynamics approach suggested by Quah (1993, 1996) persistence appears as a main feature in the regional distribution of output. Therefore, in the long run no evidence of regional convergence in the Spanish economy is found.

JEL-codes: E1 N93 N94 O18 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2007
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