Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71912 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2007-17
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Department of Public Finance, Innsbruck
Abstract: 
Empirical work on regional growth under spatial spillovers uses two workhorse models: the spatial Solow model and Verdoorn's model. This paper contrasts these two views on regional growth processes and demonstrates that in a spatial setting the speed of convergence is heterogenous in both considered models, depending on the remoteness and the income gap of all regions. Furthermore, the paper introduces Wald tests for conditional spatial sigma-convergence based on a spatial maximum likelihood approach. Empirical estimates for 212 European regions covering the period 1980-2002 reveal a slow speed of convergence of about 0.7 percent per year under both models. However, pronounced heterogeneity in the convergence speed is evident. The Wald tests indicate significant conditional spatial sigma-convergence of about 2 percent per year under the spatial Solow model. Verdoorn's specification points to a smaller and insignificant variance reduction during the considered period.
Subjects: 
conditional spatial beta- and sigma-convergence
spatial solow model
Verdoorn's model
spatial maximum likelihood estimates
European regions
JEL: 
R11
C21
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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