. We assess the role of these external effects in explaining growth and economic convergence. We present a simple growth …

This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …

long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence … is more consistent with endogenous self-reinforcing growth than with neoclassical convergence. Introducing a net … migration variable in a growth regression increases the estimate of beta convergence slightly. Studies that use panel models or …

of these effects in a growth equation may downward bias the estimated rate of convergence by assingning the effect of … regional externalities to the convergence parameter. We propose the use of spatial econometrics techniques to test and estimate …

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 …-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we … regional product confirm this outcome as do non-parametric estimates of convergence, namely estimates using Markov transition …

Price and output level convergence between new member states and the existing EU necessarily implies inflation and … nominal criteria are suspended, the policy instruments required to achieve euro convergence are in the hands of the individual …

regional level. The convergence process observed until the late seventies was exhausted onwards in coincidence with important … (in our opinion) richer approach to the traditional convergence analysis, where the evolution of the whole regional … convergence analysis. …