¿Hasta qué punto la perificidad económica es responsable de las diferencias en el PIB per capita entre las provincias españolas?

Abstract

This paper analyses the influence of economic remoteness in the explanation of per capita GDP disparities across Spanish provinces. In order to do so, we regress provincial per capita GDP on market access and a set of control variables using OLS and IV estimates. The results of our estimations show that market access is statistically significant and quantitatively important in the explanation of the spatial income structure observed across the Spanish provinces. Our results also show that there are at least three channels through which market access might be affecting Spanish per capita GDP figures: human capital, productive capital and the size of R&D activities.