projections can be resolved by accounting for growth convergence in a climate-econometric approach that is consistent with the …-level economic growth, our convergence-consistent projections reveal that under an unmitigated warming scenario, global climate …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined … whether departures from the frontier - country-level inefficiencies - exhibit long-run relationships and convergence. The … studies have found not to display convergence, shows signs of catch-up. …

Bottom-up processes of policy convergence are increasingly discussed as a substitute for the absence of supranational …-up convergence? In order to answer this question, we first construct country-specific R&D-based knowledge stocks, and then … Member States over the time period 1990-2012 is employed to test for the presence of conditional â-convergence using a bias …

oil and gas, and the progressive catch up of Asian countries, leading to a convergence in terms of both GDP and CO2 …

This paper investigates the convergence behaviour of carbon dioxide emissions for 39 countries in the Americas from … 1960-2016. A linear regression test of convergence which looks for conditional sigma convergence is employed, and a … clustering algorithm is used to identify convergence clubs. The results show evidence of convergence in the region for the long …

have exhibited a convergence trend since 2013. However, the urban air situation in China remains far from ideal. For an … investigate the impact of the VEPP of Chinese local governments on the convergence of PM2.5 concentrations, this study uses the … distribution dynamics technique. The results show that the Chinese government can promote the convergence of air pollution in local …

convergence. Specifically, we extend a Melitz and Ottaviano (2008) type trade model with variable mark-ups to allow for endogenous … thus fails to promote convergence. …