(industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised … Telecommunication, both in a turn-around phase, and Gas & Oil and Technology, for which there is no panel convergence. Club convergence … tests reveal the existence of convergence clubs and divergent economies within the full panel, which explains why panel …

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …

regional inequality based on cross-section data. Panel regressions investigate the within-country changes in inequality, i …

-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the … policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …

panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price …

dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger …

and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence …

African (MENA) countries over the period 1990-2010 using panel data methods. For the first specification, namely EKC, we show …

develop tests for threshold effects in the context of dynamic heterogeneous panel data models with cross-sectionally dependent …