analyzing the determinants of long-run growth and convergence that is versatile, simple and empirically useful. Versatile, as … the same framework can be used to analyze how growth interacts with development and cross-country convergence and …In this chapter we argue that the endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovations provides a framework for …

the correlation between the convergence process and economic growth we focused, as it is usually used in specialised …The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between regional convergence inside of countries in EU and … overall economic growth, and, based on it, to establish some relevant behavioural regimes. As data sources we are using the …

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So … convergence of 6.9 per cent and a capital elasticity of 0.43. …

regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth … convergence of GDP per worker observed across the European regions, in the absence of data on regional TFP. Second, the spatial … regional convergence in Europe. As for the first issue, our aim is to assess whether the convergence observed across European …

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim … to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of Barro, Mankiw and Sala-i-Martin?s (1995) growth model that incorporates two …