Regional Convergence Clusters Across Europe

Costas Megir and Danny Quah

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Per capita incomes across European regions are not equal and do not stay constant; regional income distributions fluctuate over time. Such a process could have many possible limiting outcomes: complete equality (convergence), stratification, and continually increasing inequality are but three distinct possibilities. This paper asks if nation-state, macro factors and physical-geography spillover effects help explain the observed distribution dynamics across European regions. Geographical factors are found to matter more than national ones; but both are important for explaining inequality dynamics.

Date: 1996-02
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