The dynamics of industrial concentration in the regions of the European Union

Growth and Change

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 200-229

  Ezcurra, Roberto ^a   Pascual, Pedro ^a   Rapú, Manuel ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION;

EID: 33745013599     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2006.00315.x     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Abramson, I. S. 1982. On bandwidth variation in kernel estimates - A square root law. Annals of Statistics 10: 1217-1223.
2. Aiginger, K., and M. Pfaffermayr. 2004. The single market and geographic concentration in Europe. Review of International Economics 12: 1-11.
3. Aiginger, K., and S. Davies. 2001. Industrial specialisation and geographic concentration: Two sides of the same coin? Working Paper 23, University of Linz.
4. Aiginger, K., and W. Leitner. 2002. Regional concentration in the United States and Europe: Who follows whom? Review of World Economics 138: 652-679.
5. Amiti, M. 1999. Specialisation patterns in Europe. Review of World Economics 135: 1-21.
6. Anderson, T. W., and L. A. Goodman. 1957. Statistical inference about Markov chains. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 28: 89-110.
7. Anselin, L. 1980. Estimations methods for spatial autoregressive structures. Regional science dissertation and monograph series 8. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
8. Anselin, L. 1988. Spatial econometrics: Methods and models. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
9. Anselin, L. 1995. Local indicators of spatial association-LISA. Geographical Analysis 27: 93-115.
10. Arthur, B. 1986. Industry location patterns and the importance of history. Discussion Paper 84, CEPR.
11. Arthur, B. 1994. Increasing returns and path dependence in the economy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
12. Barrios, S., L. Bertinelli, E. Strobl, and A. C. Teixeira. 2003. Agglomeration economies and the location of industries: A comparison of three small European countries. CORE Discussion Paper 2003/67.
13. Bartholomew, D. J. 1973. Stochastic models for social processes. 2nd ed. London: Wiley.
14. Basawa, I. Y., and B. L. Prakasa Rao. 1980. Statistical inference for stochastic processes, probability and mathematical statistics. London: Academic Press.
15. Brülhart M. 2001a. Evolving geographic concentration of European manufacturing industries. Review of World Economics 137: 215-243.
16. Brülhart, M. 2001b. Growing alike or growing apart? Industrial specialisation of EU countries. In The impact of EMU on Europe and the developing countries, ed. C. Wypolsz, 169-194. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
17. Brülhart, M., and R. Traeger. 2005. An account of geographic concentration patterns in Europe. Regional Science and Urban Economics 35: 597-624.
18. Cliff, A., and J. Ord. 1981. Spatial process. Models and applications. London: Pion.
19. Combes, P., and H. Overman. 2004. The spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. In Handbook of urban and regional economics, Vol. 4. ed. V. Henderson and J. Thisse, 2845-2910. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
20. David, P. A. 1985. CLIO and the economics of QWERTY. American Economic Review 67: 297-308.
21. Dumais, G., G. Ellison, and E. L. Glaeser. 2002. Geographic concentration as a dynamic process. Review of Economics and Statistics 84: 193-204.
22. Fields, G. S., and E. A. Ok. 1999. The measurement of income mobility: An introduction to the literature. In Handbook on income inequality measurement, ed. J. Silber, 557-598. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
23. Fingleton, B. 1999. Estimates of time to economic convergence: An analysis of regions of the European Union. International Regional Science Review 22: 5-34.
24. Fujita, M., and J. F. Thisse. 2002. Economics of agglomeration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
25. Fujita, M., P. Krugman, and A. Venables. 1999. The spatial economy. Cambridge: MIT Press.
26. Geweke, J., R. Marshall, and G. Zarkin. 1986. Mobility indices in continuous time Markov chains. Econometrica 54: 1407-1423.
27. Glaeser, E. L., H. D. Kallal, J. A. Scheinkman, and A. Shleifer. 1992. Growth in cities. Journal of Political Economy 100: 1126-1152.
28. Haaland, J., H. Kind, K. Midelfart-Knarvik, and J. Torstensson. 1999. What determines the economic geography of Europe? CEPR Discussion Paper 2072.
29. Haining, R. 1990. Spatial data analysis in the social and environmental sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Hallet, M. 2002. Regional specialisation and concentration in the EU. In Regional convergence in the European Union, facts, prospects and policies, ed. J. R. Cuadrado and M. Parellada, 53-76. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
31. Helg, R., P. Manasse, P. Monacelli, and R. Rovelli. 1995. How much (a)symmetry in Europe? Evidence from industrial sectors. European Economic Review 39: 1017-1041.
32. Holmes, T. J. 1999. How industries migrate when agglomeration economies are important. Journal of Urban Economics 45: 240-264.
33. Hoover, E. 1936. The measurement of industrial localization. Review of Economics and Statistics 28: 162-171.
34. Karlin, S., and H. Taylor. 1975. A first course in stochastic processes. 2nd ed. New York: Harwood Academic Press.
35. Kendall, M. G., and A. Stuart. 1977. The advanced theory of statistics, Volume 1: Distribution theory. 4th ed. London: Griffin.
36. Kim, S. 1995. Expansion of markets and the geographic distribution of economic activities: The trends in US regional manufacturing structure 1860-1987. Quarterly Journal of Economics 110: 881-908.
37. Kremer, M., A. Onatski, and J. Stock. 2001. Searching for prosperity. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 55: 275-303.
38. Krugman, P. 1991a. Geography and trade. Cambridge: MIT Press.
39. Krugman, P. 1991b. Increasing returns and economic geography. Journal of Political Economy 99: 484-499.
40. Krugman, P. 1991c. History and industry location: The case of the manufacturing belt. American Economic Review 81: 80-83.
41. Krugman, P. 1993. History versus expectations. Quarterly Journal of Economics 106: 651-667.
42. Krugman, P. 1998. What's new about the new economic geography? Oxford Review of Economic Policy 14: 7-17.
43. Le Gallo, J. 2004. Space-time analysis of GDP disparities among European regions: A Markov chain approach. International Regional Science Review 27: 138-163.
44. López-Bazo, E., E. Vayá, A. Mora, and J. Suriñach. 1999. Regional economic dynamics and convergence in the European Union. Annals of Regional Science 33: 343-370.
45. Magrini, S. 1999. The evolution of income disparities among the regions of the European Union. Regional Science and Urban Economics 29: 257-281.
46. Marron, J. S., and D. Nolan. 1988. Canonical kernels for density estimation. Statistics and Probability Letters 7: 195-199.
47. Martin, P. 1999. Public policies, regional inequalities and growth. Journal of Public Economics 73: 85-105.
48. Martin, P., and G. Ottaviano. 1996. La géographie de l'Europe multi-vitesses. Economie International 67: 45-65.
49. Midelfart-Knarvik, K., and H. Overman. 2002. Delocation and European integration: Is structural spending justified? Economic Policy 35: 323-359.
50. Midelfart-Knarvik, K., H. Overman, S. Redding, and A. Venables. 2002. The location of European industry. In European Economy Special Report No. 2 (European Integration and the Functioning of Product Markets) European Commission Office for Official Publications of the European Commission, 213-270.
51. Molle, W. 1996. The regional economic structure of the European Union: An analysis of long term developments. In Regional growth and regional policy within the framework of European integration, ed. K. Peschel, 66-86. Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag.
52. OECD. 1999. EMU, Challenges and Policies. Paris: OECD.
53. Ottaviano, G., and D. Puga. 1998. Agglomeration in the global economy: A survey of the new economic geography. The World Economy 21: 707-731.
54. Paci, R. 1997. More similar and less equal: Economic growth in the European Regions. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 133: 609-634.
55. Pagan, A., and A. Ullah. 1999. Nonparametric econometrics: Themes in modern econometrics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
56. Puga, D. 1999. The rise and fall of regional inequalities. European Economic Review 43: 303-334.
57. Puga, D. 2002. European regional policies in light of recent location theories. Journal of Economic Geography 2: 373-406.
58. Puga, D., and A. Venables. 1996. The spread of industry: Spatial agglomeration in economic development. Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 10: 440-464.
59. Quah, D. 1993. Empirical cross-section dynamics in economic growth. European Economic Review 37: 426-434.
60. Quah, D. 1996a. Empirics for economic growth and convergence. European Economic Review 40: 1353-1375.
61. Quah, D. 1996b. Twin peaks: Growth and convergence in models of distribution dynamics. Economic Journal 106: 1045-1055.
62. Quah, D. 1997. Empirics for growth and distribution: Stratification, polarization and convergence clubs. Journal of Economic Growth 2: 27-59.
63. Rey, S., and B. Montouri. 1999. US regional income convergence: A spatial econometric perspective. Regional Studies 33: 143-156.
64. Shorrocks, A. F. 1978. The measurement of mobility. Econometrica 46: 1013-1024.
65. Silverman, B. 1986. Density estimation for statistics and data analysis, Monographs on statistics and applied probability 26. London: Chapman and Hall.
66. Vayá, E., and J. Suriñach. 2003. The spatial distribution of labour productivity in the European regions: A study in spatial econometrics. In European regional growth, ed. B. Fingleton, 183-214. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
67. Venables, A. 1996. Equilibrium locations of vertically linked industries. International Economic Review 37: 341-359.