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 …

inequality in Italy. More particularly, convergence in value added per capita across Italy’s regions is tested (through both …

-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 …

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 …

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. …