The topic of convergence is at the heart of a wide-ranging debate in the growth literature. Empirical studies of … convergence differ widely in their theoretical backgrounds, empirical specifications and in their treatment of cross …-sectional heterogeneity. Despite these differences, a rate of convergence of about 2% has been found under a variety of different conditions …

How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world …

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 …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …