Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours

Philippe De Vreyer and Gilles Spielvogel

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Clustering of economic performance and growth in space has generated considerable research on the spillovers and linkages among geographical neighbours. In this paper, we study the growth process of a large sample of Brazilian municipalities for the period 1970-1996 and attempt to evaluate the spatial externalities at work among them. We estimate the convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence in growth. These two facts could help explain the persistent inequalities between municipios and the increasing clustering of poor localities in the Northeast region.

Keywords: Local growth; convergence; spatial externalities; spatial econometrics; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://paris1.hal.science/hal-01275097v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in MIT Press. Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, 2009, 978-0-262-11324-3

Downloads: (external link)
https://paris1.hal.science/hal-01275097v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours (2005)
Working Paper: Spatial externalities between Brazilian municipios and their neighbours (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01275097

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().