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 …

An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

We study the issue of income convergence across countries and regions with a Bayesian model which allows us to use … information in an efficient and flexible way. We argue that the very slow convergence rates to a common level of per-capita income … introduces in the results. Our approach permits the estimation of different convergence rates to different steady states for each …

manufacturing suggest that convergence of GDP per worker must have occurred through trends in other sectors and through …

study of the convergence hypothesis. The data show limited intra-distribution mobility in incomes across economies and thus …, little convergence. The analysis uncovers some `convergence club'-like dynamics, and reveals the wide diversity in growth …

lower income. We analyse the effect of different integration sequences on industrial location and convergence during the …