companies in Thailand. The convergence-of-interest hypothesis asserts that firm value increases as management ownership rises …

Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU) since the … the coefficient of variation. The results show little evidence of price convergence for non-residential construction for … either country group. This is shown to be in contrast with convergence that is evident in the prices of other product groups …

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also … support output convergence and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature might be spurious. However …

tests for convergence amongst regions, providing forecasts for farm productivity growth to the year 2040. The results …

The purpose of this thesis is to examine in depth the process of U.S. GAAP convergence to IFRS. The thesis begins by … providing the history of convergence, which include all the measures that have led to the FASB’s and IASB efforts today. Some … convergence or endorsement of IFRS. The conclusion includes interviews of three Deloitte professionals on their opinions of …

continuing search for convergence of FASB and IASB as they strive to make leases as transparent and honest as possible. …

technology is exogenous in the Solow model, all of the endogenous convergence dynamics take place through the adjustment of the … convergence of economies towards their steady-state paths. We find that the conditional convergence speed is about seven percent … panel econometric techniques produce downward-biased estimates of convergence speeds, while our approach does not. …

differentials. In addition, the commonly cited empirical result that the speed of conditional convergence is slower than predicted …