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Threshold Conditions and Regional Convergence in European Agriculture

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  • Stilianos Alexiadis

    (Ministry of Rural Development and Foods, Department of Agricultural Policy and Documentation, Division of Agricultural Statistics, Athens, Greece)

  • Alexandros Alexandrakis

    (Technological Education Institute of Serres, Serres, Greece)

Abstract

Convergence across regional economies has spurred one of the most debatable issues in contemporary research in economics. In this paper we seek to address the question of whether, during the period 1995-2004 the NUTS-2 regions of EU-26 exhibited a tendency to converge in terms of agricultural labour productivity. The approach used in this paper is mainly quantitative, with emphasis on empirical results. However, it is hoped that this paper will be able to isolate some interesting views on the issue of regional convergence in Europe. Application of a series of models indicates that the NUTS-3 regions follow a pattern of club-convergence. This pattern is attributed to initial 'threshold conditions' that determine the composition of the convergence-club.

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  • Stilianos Alexiadis & Alexandros Alexandrakis, 2008. "Threshold Conditions and Regional Convergence in European Agriculture," International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research (IJBESAR), Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Kavala Campus, Greece, vol. 1(2), pages 13-37, December.
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    Keywords

    Conditional and Club-Convergence; Agriculture; European Union;
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    • Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • C2 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables

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