This paper provides a new, unified, and flexible framework to measure and characterize a convergence process. Specifically, we formally define the notion of price convergence and propose a model to represent a wide range of transition paths that converge to a common steady-state. Our framework...

This article provides a methodology to test absolute and relative price convergence (in mean and variance) based on a model of relative prices that includes a transition path, and offers a way to measure the speed of price convergence across countries. By applying this test to the European...