effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

and city population. This paper embeds a “black box” agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium … and wages move in the same direction under neo-classical assumptions, agglomeration economies in production, congestion in … variables, although some of these effects are ambiguous in the production agglomeration model. If natural advantage and housing …

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 …

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 … find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over time. Robustness checks that use regional real income instead of gross …

to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the … those of its close competitors. Part of the process of convergence to the frontier across the development process represents … that lag the frontier benchmark. Among potential explanatory variables that may drive convergence, ownership and human …

We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration … downstream customers also has no effect. Agglomeration effects are stronger for small than for large plants. …

economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of …