Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009
We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of … characteristic of regions in old EU member states. We find robust evidence of asymmetric growth performance within countries, with a … growth bonus in regions containing capital cities which is particularly sizeable in CEE countries, as well as a robust …