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Regional Convergence in the European Union pp 23–52Cite as

Regional Dynamics in the European Union: Winners and Losers

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Economic growth and its causes have been at the centre of economists’ attention for a long time. In the renewed debate about the factors explaining growth and the validity of the dominant models, the explanation of national and regional inequalities has been the real test for new theoretical strands and their predictions. Recent debates on these topics have largely been focused on the controversial question of convergence or divergence between countries or regions with different levels of economic development, which has become the touchstone in evaluating the validity of old and new models2.

A first draft of this article was presented at the 40th Congress of the European Regional Science Association held in Barcelona at the end of August 2000 (Convergence and Regional Mobility in the European Union). We acknowledge the financial support of the Ministry of Education, SEC99-1101, research project titled: The Spanish Regions in the European Monetary Union Context: Prospects, Sectorial Effects and Problems.

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  1. Department of Applied Economy, University of Alcalá, Plaza de la Victoria, 2, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura, Tomás Mancha-Navarro & Rubén Garrido-Yserte

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  1. Department of Applied Economy, University of Alcalá — Madrid, Plaza de la Victoria, 2, 28802, Alcalá de Henares — Madrid, Spain

    Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura (Director of the ‘Service Industries Research Laboratory’) (Director of the ‘Service Industries Research Laboratory’)

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    Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura (Director of the ‘Service Industries Research Laboratory’) (Director of the ‘Service Industries Research Laboratory’)

  3. Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Spanish Economy, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal, 690, 08029, Barcelona, Spain

    Martí Parellada (Director of ‘Les Heures-Universidad de Barcelona’ Centro de Formación Continuada) (Director of ‘Les Heures-Universidad de Barcelona’ Centro de Formación Continuada)

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Cuadrado-Roura, J.R., Mancha-Navarro, T., Garrido-Yserte, R. (2002). Regional Dynamics in the European Union: Winners and Losers. In: Cuadrado-Roura, J.R., Parellada, M. (eds) Regional Convergence in the European Union. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04788-0_2

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