Territorial Data Agregation and Trends of Regional Economic Convergence in Europe: A Geo-statistical Analysis for the 2003–2014 Period
Territorial Data Agregation and Trends of Regional Economic Convergence in Europe: A Geo-statistical Analysis for the 2003–2014 Period

Summary/Abstract: As the majority of studies and reports highlight, during the 2001–2013 period the Eastern EU states showed accelerated rhythms of economic convergence. The general conclusion stays that as the economic performance of the Eastern EU countries approaches that of the Western EU states, the level of internal disparities also increases, indicating that the trends of convergence might be affected by the territorial context of data aggregation and specific processes of economic accumulation at each NUTS scale. This paper analyzes how the territorial scale of data aggregation can explain different intensities of the economic convergence, in a flexible multi-scalar approach to the indicators. A top-down descriptive approach is employed, starting with the national level and continuing to the NUTS3 spatial frame of data modeling, estimating how the trends of the convergence process are shifting when the scale of analysis is modified.

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