Title:
THE Β & Σ-CONVERGENCE OF EUROPEAN REGIONS: AN APPROACH USING SPATIAL ECONOMETRICS

Authors:
Bushra Abdulbari Ahmed, Samer Muhammad Fakhr, Zuhair Hamid Turki, Iraq

Abstract:

The goal of this paper is to explore spatial dependency in the phase of integration of European countries. On the one hand, the recently evolved techniques of an observational study of spatial data are used to improve the definition of the regional complexities of the development of Western countries. This helps us to shed more light on the standard β-convergence metric that hides specific geographical trends that fluctuate across period. On the other side, in Integration systems, they have the existence of spatial self-creation utilizing spatial econometric techniques. It helps us to evaluate the data gathered pre and post considering spatial correlation coefficients in order to highlight the importance of spilling over impacts on geographic development anomalies.