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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of figures 9 List of tables 11 List of appendices 13 Acknowledgements 14 1 Introduction 16 2 Regional income disparities: theories and facts 25 Introduction 25 Theories of growth, convergence and spatial agglomeration 25 Income convergence in the neoclassical growth model 26 Allowing for income divergence: the new growth models 28 The new geography models and the agglomeration of economic activities 29 Testing for convergence: main methodologies 31 Absolute and conditional convergence 31 Testing for convergence with spatial correlation 33 Non-parametric tests of convergence 34 Testing for convergence across European regions: main results 39 Conclusions 44 3 Classifying European regions on the basis of specialization, knowledge and socio-economic groups 50 Introduction 50 Regional specialization groups 51 Does specialization matter? 51 Classifying regions on the basis of their specialization 58 Regional knowledge groups 64 Innovation, human capital and regional growth 65 Identifying regional knowledge groups 66 Regional socio-economic groups 71 The relevance of regional socio-economic groups 72 Identifying regional socio-economic groups 75

Author

Meliciani, Valentina.

Language

EN