Desempeño Económico Regional: Un Análisis Dinámico Para El Caso Chileno En El Período 1960-2009

Between 1985 and 1998, the growth rate of Chile was among the top four in the world (Massad, 2002, Gallego and Loayza, 2002) showing, moreover, a very heterogeneous behavior at regional level. The objective of this paper is to analyze how dissimilar are the economic performance of Chilean regions in recent decades (1960-2009) in relation to the economic policies implemented. A methodology of clustering analysis based on the study of dynamic regimes is used to study the convergence/divergence of the behavior of regions.