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European regional growth, technology gap and "social capability"

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  • Lydia Greunz

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This paper aims at testing the technology gap hypothesis in order to explain the growth patterns of European regions. After a review of the related literature, we construct a simultaneous equation model of cumulative growth where catching up is driven by "social capability". This model is applied on an extended sample of 153 European NUTS I and II regions. The estimates are used to cluster the sample of European regions with respect to their growth paths: regions converging to the economic performance of frontiers regions, regions converging to their own steady state and regions for which relative backwardness seems to be a recurrent issue of the growth mechanism.

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  • Lydia Greunz, 2002. "European regional growth, technology gap and "social capability"," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/9471, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/9471
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    1. Eckey, Hans-Friedrich & Türck, Matthias, 2005. "Convergence of EU-regions: A literature report," Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge 80, University of Kassel, Faculty of Economics and Management.

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