Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady state output per person are due to international differences in technology for a constant capital output ratio. However, most of the cross-country growth literature that refers...

Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, ) predicts that international differences in steady-state output per person are due to international differences in technology for a constant capital output ratio. However, most of the empirical growth literature that refers to the...

We present a simple reproducible methodology for constructing regional capital stock data, which we apply to Israel. We find that capital deepening has been sigma-convergent since 1985. This process is "inverted" since capital stocks and capital-labor ratios in the richer center have been...