This study mainly examines the role of macroeconomic policy variables associated with Maastricht Convergence Criteria (MC), using various approaches to analyze comparatively differences in growth and convergence in income, productivity, and unemployment between a developed, economically...

We construct the world's centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five recognized data sources covering the last two centuries. We also propose a more appropriate two-map representation of the location of the center of gravity, which abstracts from...

The commonly used GDP indicator in real terms does not catch a country trading gain or loss. The real gross domestic income rates of growth, which include the influence of terms of trade changes, were approximately 1 percentage point higher in annual average than the GDP rates in the Czech...