Straubhaar, Thomas; Suhrcke, Marc; Urban, Dieter M. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002
This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard … geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log-linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a … divergence compared to initial income which the most important official EU eligibility criterium for regional aid is built on …