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| Title: | | What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography  |
| Authors: | | Tondl, Gabriele Vuksic, Goran |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEI working paper B 12-2003 |
| Abstract: | | This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical factors in a model of economic growth. The key relationships are estimated with spatial econometric tools on empirical data for the period 1995-2000. We find that foreign direct investment was paramount for growth in that period. EU border regions and capital areas clearly outperformed others. Further, regional growth clusters have appeared. Surprisingly, the high level of secondary education played no role to growth. Higher education, in contrast, was important, also for technology transfer. |
| Subjects: | | Regional growth Eastern Europe foreign direct investment education spatial econometrics |
| JEL: | | R11 P25 C21 F15 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | ZEI Working Papers, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, Universität Bonn
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