Although the traditional economic base model remains a useful tool for regional analysis, in a multi-region context it … fails to account for feedback effects. In addition, since the model is typically applied to individual regions, formal … assessment of variation in the magnitude of regional multipliers is rarely considered. These shortcomings may be addressed by …

We examine the empirical relationship between public investment and per capita income growth in the Spanish regions …-positive effect of productive-public investment on the rate of regional economic growth. The impact of public investment in education … results. It is concluded that there are no simple recipes for effective regional investment policies. …

natural amenities can lead to persistent wage differentials across regions; and how regional variation in factor inputs … and natural amenities affect regional economic growth, employment growth, or firm location; how variations in policy and …

This paper provides an overview of the concepts of regional competitiveness, including definitions, conceptual models … indices of competitiveness are reviewed and the usefulness of these studies is summarized. Potential roles for regional … scientists for improving (1) evaluations of regional competitiveness and (2) applications of evaluations to regional development …

The literature on regional disparities in China is both broad and deep. Nonetheless, much of its focus has been on the … productivity growth for seven regions of China between 1987 and 1997 into five partial effects--changes in value added coefficients … contributions to labor productivity of the different factors at the regional level. In this way, we present a new perspective on …

In this paper, I perform a spatial econometric analysis of the determinants of regional specialization patterns across … EU regions. Spatial correlation is evident, but this is due mostly to spatial error autocorrelation. Spatial interaction …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects on regional manufacturing productivity of various external … two types of external effects are formulated and tested for six manufacturing subsectors of the regions of 13 western EU …

Blending regional studies with growth econometrics, we apply the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) methodology to … income, employment, and population growth over 1990-2000 for all 254 Texas counties organized in 24 geographic regions …

competition, lagging regions of the U.S., and especially in the rural South, will need new ideas from regional science on how to …Regional science has a variety of characteristics that distinguish it from its sister social sciences: it works the …

two-thirds of the income inequality within regions (a Gini index of 0.101) was attributable to the level of income …