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Fighting Gravity: Institutional Changes and Regional Disparities in the EU

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  • Roberto Camagni
  • Roberta Capello
  • Silvia Cerisola
  • Ugo Fratesi

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A thorough investigation of the relationship between the deepening and the widening processes of EU integration and the historic evolution of regional disparities is missing in the related vast existing inductive literature. This usually focuses on EU15 countries or Central and Eastern European Countries, generally involves relatively short and recent periods, and takes into consideration just one institutional change at a time, if any. This article aims at filling these gaps by providing a theoretical interpretative framework on the effects of each institutional change on inter- and intranational disparities, and by verifying the fitness of the theoretical expectations with a longitudinal trend analysis and with an econometric event analysis. Theory was overall right in claiming that widening and deepening of the EU would have exacerbated intraregional disparities. Counteracting such tendency could look like fighting gravity, since disparities continuously reappear in different forms and spatial levels, transmitting a sense of unescapable normality.

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  • Roberto Camagni & Roberta Capello & Silvia Cerisola & Ugo Fratesi, 2020. "Fighting Gravity: Institutional Changes and Regional Disparities in the EU," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 96(2), pages 108-136, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:recgxx:v:96:y:2020:i:2:p:108-136
    DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2020.1717943
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    1. Roberta Capello & Andrea Caragliu, 2021. "Regional growth and disparities in a post‐COVID Europe: A new normality scenario," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(4), pages 710-727, September.
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    3. Garashchuk, Anna & Castillo, Fernando Isla & Rivera, Pablo Podadera, 2023. "Economic cohesion and development of the European Union's regions and member states - A methodological proposal to measure and identify the degree of regional economic cohesion," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    4. Panagiotis Artelaris, 2021. "Regional economic growth and inequality in Greece," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(1), pages 141-158, February.
    5. Svetlana Ledyaeva, 2024. "Third-Country Effects of Export Incentives," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 35(1), pages 71-98, February.
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    7. Roberta Capello & Silvia Cerisola, 2023. "Industrial transformations and regional inequalities in Europe," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 70(1), pages 15-28, February.
    8. Roberta Capello & Silvia Cerisola, 2020. "Concentrated versus diffused growth assets: agglomeration economies and regional cohesion," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(4), pages 1440-1453, December.
    9. Fusaro, Stefano & Scandurra, Rosario, 2023. "The impact of the European social fund on youth education and employment," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
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