"Economies in Transition and the Variety of Capitalisms: Features, Changes, Convergence" held in Varna, Bulgaria, 10-12 September …

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. …

importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

, convergence, growth. … more than a century. The changes in aggregate or average income is a good measure for economic growth but is far from being … moreover to investigate the role and the effects on socio-economic growth. Keywords: Income distribution, inequality, poverty …

The topic of this paper is an analysis of the growth of the Serbian economy. The paper is primarily devoted to the … analysis of the sources of growth of the Serbian economy. In this regard, apart from conventional decomposition of growth (into … contributions of capital, labor, and total factor productivity), the demand side and the industry composition sides of the sources-of-growth …

We show that the use of pooled and panel data in estimating convergence across countries (or other territorial areas …) may involve some pitfalls since this type of data cannot properly distinguish between actual convergence and the … possibility of decreasing growth rates over time within each country (or geographical unit). We also show how the possible bias in …

Literature on convergence among Latin American countries is still scarce compared to other regions. Almost none of the … research connects convergence to the economic history of Latin America and the usual finding is one speed of convergence … study, which allows me to use chronological events to explain, analyze and validate the historical convergence clubs in …