: that of the divergence or convergence of tastes. Based on a sample of 622 popular films released between 2005 and 2009 in … build an alternative and useful form of tastes’ convergence. …

This paper evaluates the convergence of energy intensities for a group of 97 countries in the period 1971 …–2003. Convergence is tested using a recent method proposed by Pesaran (2007) [Pesaran, M.H., 2007. A pair-wise approach to testing for … output and growth convergence. Journal of Econometrics 138, 312–355] based on the stochastic convergence criterion. An …