“convergence clubs” in cross-national section. It implements a traditional analysis of convergence tracking the catching-up process … average annual GDP PPP per capita growth rates (as exponential growth rate) and initial GDP PPP per capita (as natural … economies. All data concerning GDP PPP per capita are drawn from the IMF World Economic Outlook Database 2011. The time coverage …

“convergence clubs” in cross-national section. It implements a traditional analysis of convergence tracking the catching-up process … average annual GDP PPP per capita growth rates (as exponential growth rate) and initial GDP PPP per capita (as natural … economies. All data concerning GDP PPP per capita are drawn from the IMF World Economic Outlook Database 2011. The time coverage …

level. However, as a result of the Great Recession of 2007 and the subsequent Eurozone Crisis a number of periphery …

This paper studies convergence in the ratio of total health expenditures to GDP (HEGDP) for a sample of OECD countries … over the period 1960-2006. Stochastic convergence is tested using unit root tests, without and with a structural break …. Moreover, beta-convergence is examined by applying a method that allows for a structural break and is robust to the presence of …

forecasting real GDP growth and inflation over 24 monthly horizons for G7 countries during 1990-2007. Professional forecasters are … found to begin and have relatively more success in predicting inflation than real GDP at significantly longer horizons …; forecasts for real GDP contain little information beyond 6 quarters, but forecasts for inflation have predictive value beyond 24 …

set. Here, the nature of causality between per capita CO2 emission (PCCO2) and per capita GDP (PCGDP) has been examined …

The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution to the analysis of absolute convergence, associated with the …