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Publications and source records attributed to Paolo Postiglione.
The presence of \b{eta}-convergence in European regions is an important issue to be analyzed. In this paper, we adopt a quantile regression approach in analyzing economic convergence. While previous work has performed quantile regression at the national level, we focus on 187 European NUTS2 regions for the period 1981-2009 and use spatial quantile regression to account for spatial dependence.
Empirical analysis in economics often faces the difficulty that the data is correlated and heterogeneous in some unknown form. Spatial parametric approaches have been widely used to account for dependence structures, but the problem of directly deal with spatially varying parameters has been largely unexplored. The problem can be serious in all those cases in which we have no prior information justified by the economic theory. In this paper we propose an algorithm-based procedure which is able to endogenously identify structural breaks in space. The proposed algorithm is illustrated by using two well known house price data sets.