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Space and growth

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial …

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The return of convergence in the US states

Boucher Breuer, Janice; Hauk, William; McDermott, John … - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 1/3, pp. 64-68

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Regional income convergence in Indochina 1970-2015?

Le Thanh Tung; Bentzen, Jan - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 3, pp. 168-173

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A meta-analysis of beta-convergence : the legendary two-percent

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2005

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 …

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Technology convergence and digital divides : a country-level evidence for the period 2000-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …

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A race to the bottom in labour standards? : an empirical investigation

Davies, Ronald B.; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2011 - This Draft: November 2011

Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment. Using spatial estimation on panel data for 148 developing countries over 18 years, we find that the labour standards...

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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007

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

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Defining European wholesale electricity markets : an "and/or" approach

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2009

An important question in the dynamic European wholesale markets for electricity is whether to define the geographical market at the level of an individual member state or more broadly. We show that if we currently take the traditional approach by considering for each member state whether there...

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Productivity convergence in OECD manufacturing industries

Carree, Martin Anthony; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1999

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … correlated with the extent of convergence. …

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Growth and risk : methodology and micro evidence

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Kinsey, Bill H. - 2006 - Rev.

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post effects of risk using a stochastic version of the Ramsey model. We develop a simulation-based econometric methodology which allows us to estimate the model in the structural form...

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