“Decentralization” of income per capita and its relationship to administrative decentralization in the context of European Union members

Benos, Christos and Angelopoulou, Ioanna and Metaxas, Theodore (2017): “Decentralization” of income per capita and its relationship to administrative decentralization in the context of European Union members.

Abstract

In this research we tried to define, for the first time, the concept of "decentralization" of per capita income and its position among other constructions, similar to or associated with it. In this direction, we tried to give decentralization a definition as clear as possible, using existing concepts to identify it, but also to associate it with its most likely cause, administrative decentralization. Besides the theoretical documentation we, additionally, attempted to put this relationship under an econometric test, which indicates some trends but, because of the difficulties in measuring some variables, we were not able to extract absolutely reliable conclusions.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: decentralization, income decentralization, administrative decentralization, European Union
• Subjects: R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R10 - General; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R15 - Econometric and Input-Output Models ; Other Models; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R5 - Regional Government Analysis > R50 - General

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