Regional growth under a monetary perspective: a theoretical model with empirical application to the Brazilian case.

This study aims to establish a link between the regional growth rate and the Keynesian concept of Liquidity Preference from a model of Circular Cumulative Causation. Particularly, it replaces Verdoorn's Law by a mutual causal relationship between credit and regional growth rate. The model is represented by a first-order difference equation dynamic system. The analytical solution suggests that regional changes in Liquidity Preference lead to a Center/Periphery pattern of growth. An empirical application is performed for the Brazilian case, using banking variables at state level in a GMM estimation for Dynamic Panel Data. The results corroborate the hypothesis of persistent different growth rates between the more and the less-developed Brazilian regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]