Uncovering the Factors behind Comparative Regional Economic Performance: A Dynamic CGE Approach

Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre Working Papers from Victoria University, Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Centre

Abstract: Recently a new method has emerged for uncovering the factors driving regional disparities in growth performance. The method involves historical analysis with a multiregional computable general equilibrium model. This paper has three main aims. The first is to demonstrate the capacity of the CGE historical technique to decompose the causes of regional divergence into clearly-specified economic factors. The second is to provide a generic miniature model that can be used as a template for adapting any multiregional CGE model to give it the capacity for undertaking historical analysis. The third is to demonstrate that this same miniature model can be used to explain the regional results in terms of the major model mechanisms behind them.

Keywords: Computable general equilibrium; Regional growth; Regional divergence; Multi-regional historical analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12
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Published in Regional Studies, Vol. 44(10), December 2010, pp. 1329-1349.

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