, investigating the effects of public capital on economic convergence at the regional level gains importance since significant … per capita in terms of convergence in the Turkish regions. A conditional convergence model based on per capita GDP and … spatial effects are also investigated. The results show that there exists conditional convergence. The results also reveal …

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 …-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we … regional product confirm this outcome as do non-parametric estimates of convergence, namely estimates using Markov transition …

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 …