a regional scope. This work analyzes the economic inequality among Mexican states by means of a convergence methodology … convergence, which has been diminishing during recent years. We also estimate the magnitude and direction of this relationship …, and find that the lack of convergence agrees with trade openness in the country. Spatial dependence indexes point out a …

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … importance of the global factor. In other words, there is evidence of business cycle convergence within each of these two groups …