Regional economic convergence, divergence, and other aspects of regional dynamics among EU regions, 1992-2006
2010
Abstract
The paper provides an exploratory analysis of regional dynamics among 264 NUTS2 EU-27 regions over the period 1992–2006. Seven different regional indicators are analyzed including wages, household expenditures, retail sales, investments, productivity, GDP, and GDP adjusted for international purchasing power differences.
Several aspects of regional dynamics are studied such as convergence, polarization, role of international component, overall mobility, and individual mobility of Czech regions. Different methods are employed including some traditional techniques such as Gini coeffi cient, Theil decomposition, or kernel density estimates but also more innovative measures based on the pair-wise comparisons of regions.