for agriculture in 16 regions of Bangladesh from 1964 to 1992 and examines convergence among regions. Productivity grew at … tests confirmed that divergence among regions disappeared and agricultural productivity reached convergence in the long run. …

Cash and futures prices should reach equality, or converge, upon contract maturity. Traders can impose convergence … during the delivery month through arbitrage behavior: either making or taking delivery on futures contracts. If convergence … the attractiveness of hedging. Recent convergence problems in domestic commodity markets demonstrate the existence of …

This study offers a unique contribution to the literature by investigating the convergence of province-level carbon … panel data model to evaluate an empirically testable hypothesis of convergence among provinces. Our results suggest that: (1 …) CO2 emission intensities are converging across provinces in China; (2) the rate of convergence is higher with the dynamic …

The objective of the study is twofold: first, to investigate whether a nutrition convergence process exists in sub … covering 1975-2009 cum balanced panel of 1505 observations was employed for the analysis. The convergence hypothesis is … Curve. However, the empirical results show that the null hypothesis of no nutrition convergence is strongly rejected, which …