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. …

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 … regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …

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 …

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 …