In this paper, we examine the growth convergence hypothesis within a developing country. Across Indian states, income dispersion has widened in recent years. Some new methods that are used by many researchers for studies across countries or across U.S. regions are applied, and we find that...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new empirical model capable of highlighting some aspects of cross-economy convergence which cannot be caught by the popular beta-convergence and sigma-convergence models. The idea is to analyse the growth of the economies as a function of the distance...

The study tries to test the convergence hypothesis in agricultural output by using district level output data over the period 1971 to 2010. Both exploratory (growth analysis with the help of summary statistics and mapping) and confirmatory approaches have been adopted (formal tests: sigma and...

In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as well as panel estimation methods. Although there have been some winners in this process, the main finding is that convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have...

What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the major cause of differences in the speed by which following regions converge and catch-up with the most advanced ones. In addition,...

In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as well as panel estimation methods. Although there have been some winners in this process, the main finding is that convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have...

The paper examines regional determinants of grain price convergence in the Russian Empire in 1880-1913. I consider data of two levels of spatial aggregation: province and newly constructed district price data. I investigate that regional production factors, i.e. crop yield, difference in land...

The feasibility of infrastructure-driven economic growth nowadays unanimously is accepted among the academicians especially in the developing countries. But the problem of this hypothesis is that there is a likelihood of regional growth variability caused by unbalanced public investment on...

This paper focuses on the impact of EU structural funds (SFs) on the GDP per capita of 183 European NUTS2 regions from 1990 to 2016. To allow for the endogeneity of funds allocation to regions, we estimate a bivariate structural panel VAR model, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity through a...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of Greek unemployment allowing for cross-sectional dependence among Greek regions and for the presence of structural breaks. The paper contributes to the literature assessing the stochastic properties of Greek regional unemployment rates using...