The Communication and European Regional Economic Growth : The Interactive Fixed Effects Approach

Following the frontier framework of the panel data models with the interactive fixed effects, it has been applied to the determinant factors analysis in the European regional economic growth. It is 268 regions or 4020 observations from 2000 to 2014 that is provided from the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat). The regional communication might provide the supplementary positive effects on the European regional economic growth, where the population and educational attainment level are negative correlated to the regional economic growth. The regional human resources in science and technology remain the domination power as one of the regional economic engines in European Union after the millennium