This paper aims to determine whether there is any convergence at all between the economic activities of the Colombian … Cundinamarca and Antioquia examples of outstanding performance. This way, it is concluded that there is convergence between the … Colombian municipalities for the period analyzed, reaching an approximate convergence speed of 3.34% per annum. …

The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence … productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical evidence of absolute convergence of productivity for each of the economic … empirical evidence of conditional convergence of productivity, for each of the economic sectors of the NUTS II of Portugal, from …

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 …

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 …

services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …

endogeneity, we find two key results for the growth of Italian regions. Firstly, we show that the rate of conditional convergence …