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REAT: A Regional Economic Analysis Toolbox for R
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Abstract Methods of regional economic analysis are widely used in regional and urban economics as well as in economic geography. This paper introduces the REAT (Regional Economic Analysis Toolbox) package for the programming environment R, which provides a collection of mathematical regional analysis methods... view more
Methods of regional economic analysis are widely used in regional and urban economics as well as in economic geography. This paper introduces the REAT (Regional Economic Analysis Toolbox) package for the programming environment R, which provides a collection of mathematical regional analysis methods in a user-friendly way. The focus is on the identification of regional inequality, beta and sigma convergence, measurement of agglomerations, point-based measures of clustering and accessibility as well as regional growth. The theoretical basics of the applications are briefly introduced, while the usage of the most important functions is presented and explained using real data.... view less
Keywords
regional economy; economic geography; economic statistics; regional difference; concentration of enterprises; economic growth; measurement; analysis
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Economics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. R1-R57
Journal
Region: the journal of ERSA, 6 (2019) 3
ISSN
2409-5370
Status
Published Version; reviewed