: that of the divergence or convergence of tastes. Based on a sample of 622 popular films released between 2005 and 2009 in … France, this research confirms taste’s divergence: professional experts grant no value to the movies that ordinary consumers … build an alternative and useful form of tastes’ convergence. …

convergence or divergence of tastes, such as they are expressed by professional experts and ordinary consumers of films? In other … words, have the ordinary consumers "good taste "? Contrary to recent U.S. studies finding some convergence, our results …

matter: divergence or convergence of tastes. Based on a sample of 622 popular films released between 2005 and 2009 in France …, this research confirms the divergence of tastes: professional experts grant no special value to movies that ordinary … media critics) builds an artificial form of convergence which can be useful for the market’s actors. …

that, from the 1980's onwards, we can accept the hypothesis of stochastic convergence between France, Germany and Japan, on …

convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

A switching regression approach with imperfect sample separation information is used to determine convergence clubs …. Regime classification allows one to determine which countries belong to the related convergence clubs. Initial per capita GDP …

This paper evaluates the convergence of energy intensities for a group of 97 countries in the period 1971 …–2003. Convergence is tested using a recent method proposed by Pesaran (2007) [Pesaran, M.H., 2007. A pair-wise approach to testing for … output and growth convergence. Journal of Econometrics 138, 312–355] based on the stochastic convergence criterion. An …