Ertur, Cem; Gallo, Julie Le; Baumont, Catherine - In: International Regional Science Review 29 (2006) 1, pp. 3-34
The authors show that spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity matter in the estimation of the β-convergence process among 138 European regions over the 1980 to 1995 period. Using spatial econometrics tools, the authors detect both spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity in the form...