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 …

This paper analyzes the relationship between human capital and convergence with a model that takes into account the … different effects of human capital accumulation on regional convergence. As an input, human capital produces convergence due to … convergence rate has been relatively small. The results indicate the potential role of educational policy in order to achieve a …

kinds of firms and, on this ground, to analyze whethercompetition leads to the homogeneization (convergence) of product …

, based on the factor productivity and efficiency measures, the study discusses the existence of technological convergence …

-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 …