Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesús; Panagiotidis, Theodore - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2013
Long-run income convergence is investigated in the US context. We employ a novel pair-wise econometric procedure based on a probabilistic definition of convergence. The time-series properties of all the possible regional income pairs are examined by means of unit root and non-cointegration tests...