ISBN: 3540003665
TITLE: European Regional Growth
AUTHOR: Fingleton
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Introduction 1
BERNARD FINGLETON
1 Models and Simulations of GDP per Inhabitant Across Europe's Regions : A Preliminary View 11
BERNARD FINGLETON
2 An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of European Regional Disparities, 1980-1995 55
CEM ERTUR AND JULIE LE GALL0
3 A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Convergence Across European Regions, 1980-1995 99
JULIE LE GALLO, CEM ERTUR AND CATHERINE BAUMONT
4 Spatial Convergence Clubs and the European Regional Growth Process, 1980-1995 131
CATHERINE BAUMONT, CEM ERTUR AND JULIE LE GALL0
5 Spatial Distance in a Technology Gap Model 159
MARJOLEIN CANILS AND BART VERSPAGEN
6 The Spatial Distribution of Labour Productivity in the European Regions: A study in Spatial Econometrics 183
ESTHER VAY AND JORDI SURIACH
7 Trade, Human Capital and Innovation: The Engines of European Regional Growth in the 1990s 215
HARALD BADINGER AND GABRIELE TONDL
8 The Technology Gap and European Regional Growth Dynamics 241
LYDIA GREUNZ
9 Employment Growth of Small Computing Services Firms and the Role of Horizontal Clusters: Evidence from Great Britain 1991-2000 267
BERNARD FINGLETON, DANILO CAMARGO IGLIORI AND BARRY MOORE
10 Externalities and Local Economic Growth in Manufacturing Industries 293
STEFANO USAI AND RAFFAELE PACI
11 Regional Disparities in Income and Unemployment in Europe 323
DNE CAPPELEN FULVIO CASTELLACCI, JAN FAGERBERG AND BART VERSPAGEN
12 Regional Growth in Western Europe: An Empirical Exploration of Interactions with Agriculture and Agricultural Policy 351
ROGER S. BIVAND AND ROLF J. BRUNSTAD
13 Explaining the Distribution of Manufacturing Productivity in the EU Regions 375
BERNARD FINGLETON AND ENRIQUE LPEZ-BAZO
Subject Index 411
List of Figures 417
List of Tables 421
Author Index 425
Contributors 431
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