Convergence concerns poor economies catching up with rich ones. At is- sue is what happens to the cross sectional …

global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …

growth and major strands of the empirical literatures on R&D, productivity growth, and productivity convergence. Starting …

Convergence concerns the poor catching up with the rich|if not instan- taneously, then at least having a tendency to do … so. When poor and rich here refer to entire economies, then whether convergence occurs is traditionally viewed as just a … instead that convergence itself is of direct interest. When conver- gence is made central and thus investigated, new …

peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution, not simple patterns of convergence or divergence. The theo- retical problems …

support for convergence is fading away after the EMU was initiated in 1999. A process of divergence in per capita GDP is … hindered convergence among the countries of the Eurozone. On the one hand, there is wide agreement on the fact that asymmetric … underway, in contrast with the substantial progress that has taken place during the nineties. Regional convergence is also …

productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … level. This article sheds light on this convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France and on some of the factors … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

, convergence, and the political economy of corporate governance codes. …