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European Regional Growth

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Bernard Fingleton

    1. Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  • On the relative economic performance of the EU regions with a strong spatial and regional perspective on the problem of EU convergence and social and economic cohesion
  • Insight into how data analysis and simulation methods can be used to understand Europe's regional economic diversity
  • An appreciation of the strong forces for economic divergence and convergence that are at play in the EU's geo-economy
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Bernard Fingleton
    Pages 1-9

  3. Models and Simulations of GDP per Inhabitant Across Europe’s Regions: A Preliminary View

    • Bernard Fingleton
    Pages 11-53

  4. An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of European Regional Disparities, 1980–1995

    • Cem Ertur, Julie Le Gallo
    Pages 55-97

  5. A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Convergence Across European Regions, 1980–1995

    • Julie Le Gallo, Cem Ertur, Catherine Baumont
    Pages 99-129

  6. Spatial Convergence Clubs and the European Regional Growth Process,1980–1995

    • Catherine Baumont, Cem Ertur, Julie Le Gallo
    Pages 131-158

  7. Spatial Distance in a Technology Gap Model

    • Marjolein Caniëls, Bart Verspagen
    Pages 159-182

  8. The Spatial Distribution of Labour Productivity in the European Regions: A Study in Spatial Econometrics

    • Esther Vayá, Jordi Suriñach
    Pages 183-214

  9. Trade, Human Capital and Innovation: The Engines of European Regional Growth in the 1990s

    • Harald Badinger, Gabriele Tondl
    Pages 215-239

  10. The Technology Gap and European Regional Growth Dynamics

    • Lydia Greunz
    Pages 241-265

  11. Employment Growth of Small Computing Services Firms and the Role of Horizontal Clusters: Evidence from Great Britain 1991–2000

    • Bernard Fingleton, Danilo Camargo Igliori, Barry Moore
    Pages 267-291

  12. Externalities and Local Economic Growth in Manufacturing Industries

    • Stefano Usai, Raffaele Paci
    Pages 293-321

  13. Regional Disparities in Income and Unemployment in Europe

    • Ådne Cappelen, Fulvio Castellacci, Jan Fagerberg, Bart Verspagen
    Pages 323-350

  14. Regional Growth in Western Europe: An Empirical Exploration of Interactions with Agriculture and Agricultural Policy

    • Roger S. Bivand, Rolf J. Brunstad
    Pages 351-373

  15. Explaining the Distribution of Manufacturing Productivity in the EU Regions

    • Bernard Fingleton, Enrique López-Bazo
    Pages 375-409

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 411-440
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Looking into the future and trying to visualize long-run regional disparities is difficult. There is no agreed single theory to guide our model building, although some insight can be gained from analysisofthe past and by looking at the differ­ ent theoretical positions to see if there is any agreement at least in terms of out­ come ifnot in terms of mechanism. This is what is attempted in this book, which brings together specialists with a common interest in European regional growth and in applying quantitative analytical and simulation techniques in order to pro­ vide different perspectives on the topic. Manyofthe Chapters in the book employ the methods of spatial econometrics. Spatial econometrics is a suite of statistical and econometric tools dedicated to the analysisofspatial data, in other words data that is set within the context of socio-econornic theories and which can be repre­ sented most informatively in mapped form. These methods have emerged over the last half-century from aseries of influential papers and books in the fields of re­ gional science, spatial statistics and quantitative geography, and are ripe for seri­ ous application in the context of the EU's development. In particular they provide the means by which to analyze spatially indexed data where the time dimension is essentially suppressed because, for instance the variables of interest are not avail­ able or are of questionable accuracy, which is often the case when one is inter­ ested in regional, rather than national, variations across a numberofcountries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Bernard Fingleton

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