Quality of government in European regions: do spatial spillovers matter?

Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto; Ríos Ibáñez, Vicente

Quality of government in European regions: do spatial spillovers matter?

dc.contributor.author	Ezcurra Orayen, Roberto
dc.contributor.author	Ríos Ibáñez, Vicente
dc.contributor.department	Economía	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Ekonomia	eu
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE	en
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-12T16:22:55Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-12T16:22:55Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-21
dc.date.updated	2024-12-12T16:03:00Z
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines the role played by spatial spillovers in shaping the regional distribution of quality of government across the European Union. To do so, it constructs a hybrid spatial weights matrix combining geographical, technological and social distances between the European regions. The results reveal that the quality of government in neighbouring regions has a positive and statistically significant effect on one region¿s quality of government, which highlights the relevance of spatial effects in this context. This finding is robust to the inclusion in the analysis of different variables that may affect regional governance. Likewise, the observed effect of neighbouring regions does not depend on the specific dimension of governance considered, the spatial weights matrix used to describe the spatial linkages between the European regions, or the econometric specification employed to capture the nature of spatial spillovers. The results also show that policy innovations related to governance spread from regions with high and intermediate levels of quality of government.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This research benefited from the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [project numbers ECO2015-64330-P, ECO2016-76681-R and PGC2018-093542-B-I00].
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dc.identifier.citation	Ezcurra, R., Rios, V. (2019) Quality of government in European regions: do spatial spillovers matter?. Regional Studies 54(8), 1032–1042. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1665644
dc.identifier.doi	10.1080/00343404.2019.1665644
dc.identifier.issn	0034-3404
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/52718
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartof	Regional Studies 2020, 54(8), 1032–1042
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//ECO2015-64330-P/ES/
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI//ECO2016-76681-R/ES/
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PGC2018-093542-B-I00/ES/
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1665644
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives.
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Quality of government	en
dc.subject	Spatial spillovers	en
dc.subject	Hybrid spatial weights matrix	en
dc.subject	Regions	en
dc.subject	European Union	en
dc.title	Quality of government in European regions: do spatial spillovers matter?	en
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