selection results identify a role for conditional convergence, physical and human capital formation, population growth, degree …

After arguing that the concepts of b-convergence and s-convergence are independently interesting, this paper extends … the empirical evidence on regional growth and convergence across the United States, Japan, and five European nations. We … confirm that the estimated speeds of convergence are surprisingly similar across data sets: regions tend to converge at a …

. The cross section of countries exhibits s-divergence and conditional b-convergence. The speed of conditional convergence …The concepts of s-convergence, absolute b-convergence and conditional b-convergence are discussed in this paper. The …. Except for the large cross section of countries, all data sets display strong evidence of s-convergence and absolute b-convergence …

In this paper, β convergence analysis for the 27 EU member countries and the 1993-2010 period is conducted. The … the widely cited 2% speed of convergence and the mechanism of conditional convergence was rather constant over time yet …

different assumptions regarding magnitudes of realization of these reserves, future convergence of the Serbian economy toward E …

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 …