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 …

We show in this paper that spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity matter in the estimation of the b-convergence … dependence and spatial heterogeneity in the form of structural instability across spatial convergence clubs. The estimation of … the appropriate spatial regimes spatial error model shows that the convergence process is different across regimes. We …

The study of regional income convergence continues to attract enormous attention. Recent emphasis has been placed on … a comprehensive overview of empirical studies of regional convergence and divergence, summarizing the existing body of …

to the concepts of ƒã- and ƒÒ-convergence and emphasizes the importance of including spatial effects and a disaggregated … analysis at a sectoral level. We detect a significant -convergence only in aggregate labor productivity and in the services … sectors among peripheral regions. We also show that omitting spatial effects leads to biased measures of -convergence. We then …

This paper estimates the impact of structural funds on the convergence process between 145 European regions over 1989 …, we first apply spatial econometrics on a conditional beta-convergence model; second, we simulate their impact on the …