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 …

matter: divergence or convergence of tastes. Based on a sample of 622 popular films released between 2005 and 2009 in France … media critics) builds an artificial form of convergence which can be useful for the market’s actors. …

The pollution-convergence hypothesis is formalized in a neoclassical growth model with optimal emissions reduction …. A Markov modeling approach predicts further cross-country absolute convergence, in particular for SOX. The latter … results hold in the presence of spatial non-convergence in per capita income levels within both regions. …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence …

Using a neo-classical growth model, we analyse the real and nominal GDP per capita convergence of 21 emerging market … physical capital intensities in the long run. Due to standard-convergence in the model, catching up will continue at a … decelerating speed. Also nominal convergence in prices that will lead to a real appreciation of the EME currencies with respect to …

). This dynamic law reduces to a convergence equation that is empirically tested for two major and regulated air pollutants …

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