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 …

them as regards the relationship between factor shares and speed of convergence. Using cross-country/timeseries data, we … specify our growth regression without imposing cross-country homogeneity restrictions on the speed of convergence and short …-run parameters. Indeed, both theoretical models imply that the speed of convergence to the steady state differs across countries due …