Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39510 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 12-2003
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
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

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