E<sc>zcurra</sc> R. and R<sc>odríguez-</sc>P<sc>ose</sc> A. Political decentralization, economic growth and regional disparities in the OECD, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Recent scholarly work has addressed whether decentralization affects economic growth and regional disparities, by typically resorting to fiscal decentralization,...

Ezcurra R., Gil C., Pascual P. and Rapun M. (2005) Regional inequality in the European Union: does industry mix matter?, Regional Studies 39 , 679-697. The aim of this paper is to test for the respective roles of regional and sectoral factors in productivity convergence in the European Union...

Ezcurra R., Pascual P. and Rapun M. (2006) Regional specialization in the European Union, Regional Studies 40, 601-616. This paper examines productive specialization in the regions of the European Union between 1977 and 1999 using the information provided by a set of methodological instruments...

Ezcurra R. Unemployment volatility and regional specialization in the European Union, Regional Studies. This paper examines the link between unemployment volatility and the sectoral composition of economic activity in the regions of the European Union over the period 1980-2004. To that end,...

Ezcurra R. Does income polarization affect economic growth? The case of the European regions, Regional Studies. This paper examines the relationship between income polarization and economic growth in the regions of the European Union over the period 1993-2003. The results indicate that the level...

R<sc>odríguez-</sc>P<sc>ose</sc> A. Do institutions matter for regional development?, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper discusses whether institutions matter for regional development and how to integrate them in regional development strategies. It is found that while institutions are crucial for economic development,...

R<sc>odríguez-</sc>P<sc>ose</sc> A. and T<sc>selios</sc> V. Individual earnings and educational externalities in the European Union, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper examines whether differences in educational externalities affect individual earnings across regions in the European Union. Using microeconomic data from the...