Liberto, A. Di; Usai, S. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2010
This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP and traditional neoclassical convergence. We analyse a sample of 199 regions in EU15 (plus Norway and Switzerland) between 1985 and 2006 and find the absence of an overall process of...