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Does size matter? : implications of household size for economic growth and convergence

Kufenko, Vadim; Geloso, Vincent; Prettner, Klaus - 2018

-country convergence. When the observed changes in average household size across countries are taken into consideration, growth in living … divergence between different countries before 1950 is faster and the speed of convergence after 1950 is slower after adjusting …

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Divergence, convergence, and the history-augmented Solow model

Kufenko, Vadim; Prettner, Klaus; Geloso, Vincent - 2017

We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence …

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Adjustment in EMU : is convergence assured?

Dullien, Sebastian; Fritsche, Ulrich; Größl, Ingrid; … - 2009

Using a modified version of the model presented by Belke and Gros (2007), we analyze the stability of adjustment in a currency union. Using econometric estimates for parameter values we check the stability conditions for the 11 original EMU countries and Greece. We found significant instability...

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Does the dispersion of unit labor cost dynamics in the EMU imply long-run divergence? : results from a comparison with the United States of America and Germany

Dullien, Sebastian; Fritsche, Ulrich - 2007

inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models …. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the …

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Unit labor cost growth differentials in the Euro area, Germany, and the US : lessons from PANIC and cluster analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir - 2007

area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …

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How bad is divergence in the Euro-zone? : lessons from the United States of America and Germany

Dullien, Sebastian; Fritsche, Ulrich - 2006 - This version: October 06

This paper compares relative unit labour cost developments in the countries of the euro-area since the beginning of the European Monetary Union (EMU) both with historical developments and with intra-regional unit labour cost developments in the United States of America and Germany. To this end,...

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