Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …

within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …

activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore this paper studies the … regional convergence from trade in Mexico after NAFTA. Unlike previous papers, working with municipal-level data allows to … observe more clearly the convergence patterns across space and to identify the effect of NAFTA, respectively. Result shows …

years after the economic crisis. Statistical analyses of trends in GDP and convergence and the role of metropolitan areas …

This paper studies the convergence in the European Union on Purchasing Power Parity. Firstly, we develop a method for … period January 1995 to July 2003. Secondly, convergence is studied using distribution dynamics from the continuous and … discrete approximations. Results show some slow convergence in the European Union. Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity …

, the central idea of regional policy, which defines community convergence tools, would be questioned. Results show … of the region’s natural resources. Key Words: Structural Funds; Ex-post Evaluation; Convergence; Input-Output; Cross …

stimulate growth in the less developed countries. In fact, according to our estimates, with an annual β-convergence of 2% in …

Economic convergence: a regional and subregional view Manuel Pérez Montiel Gislaine Cristina de Souza Rech Judite … Sanson de Bem The study of economic convergence among nations is based on the initial work of Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991 …), a topic of spatial econometric analysis Recently, research on economic convergence have been directed towards smaller …

investigating pairwise convergence of output in panel data sets of n countries, n(n-1)/2 tests are performed. We propose to control … show that convergence in panels of per capita output using a time series definition with the necessary condition of no unit …