This article uses a non-linear time-varying model to test productivity convergence in 10 emerging countries within Central and Eastern Europe. The results show that the convergence algorithm has rejected the null hypothesis of convergence for all countries in most of the sectors. Also, we found...

This article uses a non-linear time-varying model to test productivity convergence in 10 emerging countries within Central and Eastern Europe. The results show that the convergence algorithm has rejected the null hypothesis of convergence for all countries in most of the sectors. Also, we found...

This paper proposes a new framework for analyzing the sentiments of central bank narratives. Specifically, we fine-tune a pre-trained BERT model on a dataset of manually annotated sentences on monetary policy stance. We derive a deep learning domain-specific model – BERT central bank sentiment...