The study of the territorial/regional development in Spain has nowadays a relatively long tradition, but from the point of view of cities development the number of studies and documents decreases drastically. This paper tries to improve the knowledge of the Spanish urban system. The aim of this paper is twofold: firstly, to determine the factors that explain the urban growth of Spanish cities; secondly, to observe the cities situation in terms of 'winners¨ and 'losers¨ after the long period of integration of Spain in the EU. A spatial conditional Beta- convergence equation is specified and the Durbin-Wu-Haussman exogeneity test is used to check on the existence of simultaneity between urban growth and the control variables. The classic problems of spread and backwash are studied by including a spatial autoregressive term and spatial regimes -convergence clubs- in the growth model.

Spatial lag model with spatial regimes. Durbin-Wu-Haussman exogeneity test.

How to cite the database (APA style): Mella JM, Chasco C. (2006) A spatial econometric analysis of urban growth and territorial dynamics: A case study on Spain [Data base] (doi: https://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.83bce218f0164f7b879f20e38d84fbb7) Source: Mella JM, Chasco C. (2006) A spatial econometric analysis of urban growth and territorial dynamics: A case study on Spain. In A Reggiani and P Nijkamp (eds) Spatial dynamics, networks and modelling, Edward Elgar, 319-360. (doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781007471.00024)