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

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 …

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 …

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. …

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

factors are also shown to speed up technology convergence thereby confirming previous empirical studies. Our estimates tackle …

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 …