Beta-convergence is determined by the sign of the slope of the income growth line. The conclusion of significance …, hence convergence or divergence, is affected by the temporal choice. Changes in the starting and ending periods influence … the conclusion of convergence, lack of significance, or divergence. The customary t-test for significance of slope is …

Regional convergence has become a heated topic in the last decades. To address it, most papers define regions on the … – examining the external shape and movements within these distributions – is applied to analyse the issue of convergence. The … study does reveal the presence of a process of convergence across both types of regions; however, this seems to be more …

We investigate convergence in European price level, unit labor cost, income, and productivity data over the period of … extremely flexible on order to model a large number of transition paths to convergence. We find regional clusters in consumer … indicate the existence of three convergence clubs without strong regional linkages; Italy and Germany are not converging to any …

We investigate convergence in European price level, unit labor cost, income, and productivity data over the period of … extremely flexible on order to model a large number of transition paths to convergence. We find regional clusters in consumer … indicate the existence of three convergence clubs without strong regional linkages; Italy and Germany are not converging to any …