convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

Using historical time-series data, we test for convergence and common trends in real per capita output for New Zealand … the fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm as an alternative basis for detecting convergence. The results of our time …-series analysis accord with earlier studies - we find limited evidence of (only bivariate) convergence, but ample evidence of a small …

Using OECD data (1965-1994) for 22 selected countries, we test for tax burden and per capita GDP convergence based on a … burden convergence. Generally, the evidence from this paper does not show any close relationship between tax burden and per … capita GDP convergence. …

that, from the 1980's onwards, we can accept the hypothesis of stochastic convergence between France, Germany and Japan, on …

A switching regression approach with imperfect sample separation information is used to determine convergence clubs …. Regime classification allows one to determine which countries belong to the related convergence clubs. Initial per capita GDP …