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 …

Unit roots in output, an exponential 2 per cent rate of convergence and no change in the underlying dynamics of output … (conditional and unconditional) convergence suit first step approximation. We show both theoretically and empirically how the … uniform 2 per cent rate of convergence repeatedly found in the empirical literature is the outcome of an underlying parameter …

differences and convergence among European countries, which have become important issues since the birth of the European monetary … of the nineties, we find weak signs of convergence within the euro area; again Italy differs and shows a slower and more …

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 …

This paper analyses banking convergence, measured through the ratios of deposits and loans to GDP, across 65 countries …, compares it with per capita income convergence, and tests its effect on real convergence. The focus of the paper is the group … convergence among these countries with that reached by other 17 potential convergence clubs around the world (including the EU-27 …

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. …