Konferenzbeitrag

Agglomeration and Growth: Evidence from the Regions of Central and Eastern Europe

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic activity, which we measure using the 'topographic' Theil index developed by Bruelhart and Traeger (2005). A transitional growth specification à la Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) is augmented with this index and estimated using panel data methods that account for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as measured by the topographic Theil index on long-run income levels. A one standard-deviation increase in agglomeration is estimated to raise steady-state income per capita by 15%. While this effect is sizeable, it may also imply a trade-off between regional development and within-regional equality for Central and Eastern Europe.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: 52nd Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regions in Motion - Breaking the Path", 21-25 August 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Economywide Country Studies: Europe
Thema
Agglomeration
regional growth
Central and Eastern Europe
spatial econometrics
panel data econometrics

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Vogel, Johanna
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
(wo)
Louvain-la-Neuve
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Beteiligte

  • Vogel, Johanna
  • European Regional Science Association (ERSA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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