The local versus global dilemma of the effects of structural funds

Growth and Change

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 466-490

  Le Gallo, Julie ^a   Dall'Erba, Sandy ^b   Guillain, Rachel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

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Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 82455188577     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2011.00564.x     Document Type: Article

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