Interpersonal transfers: Do they impact the growth of poor and rich European regions?
Publisher
Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (AECR)
Date
2007Bibliographic citation
Investigaciones regionales = Journal of Regional Research, 2016, n. 10, p. 155-170
Keywords
Income transfers
Regional growth
Spatial dependence
Transferencias de ingresos
Crecimiento regional
Dependencia espacial
Description / Notes
Centre de Recherches en Economie Régionale et Politique Economique (CERPE). FUNDP, University of Namur. Rempart de la Vierge, 8. B-5000 Namur. Belgium. A previous version of this paper has been presented at the 46th Congress of the European Regional Science Association, August 30-September 3, Volos, Greece. Nicolas Debarsy is gratefully acknowledged for his useful assistance. The authors would also like to thank Henri de Groot, Centraal Planbureau, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Errors are ours.
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how national interpersonal transfer policies affect regions’ economic growth. Reviewing the economic literature, we found only incidental evidences and contradictory conclusions. Our objective is to provide some statistical evidence of the relation between interregional interpersonal redistribution towards poor European regions and their relative growth. Using
some recent developments in the field of spatial data analysis, we found that interpersonal transfers do not seem to affect negatively the economic growth of poor European regions, while it is not possible to assert their impact on rich regions. El propósito de este artículo es investigar cómo las políticas de transferencias interpersonales a nivel nacional afectan el desarrollo económico de las regiones. Tras una revisión de la literatura económica, encontramos solamente evidencias fortuitas y conclusiones contradictorias. Nuestro objetivo es proporcionar evidencia estadística acerca de la relación entre la redistribución interpersonal interregional hacia regiones europeas pobres y su crecimiento relativo. Usando algunos desarrollos recientes en
el campo del análisis de datos espaciales, encontramos que las transferencias interpersonales no parecen afectar negativamente el desarrollo económico de regiones europeas pobres, mientras que no es posible afirmar su impacto en regiones ricas.
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