Postiglione, Paolo; Benedetti, Roberto; Lafratta, Giovanni - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 54 (2010) 11, pp. 2776-2785
The concept of convergence clubs is analyzed and compared with classical methods for the study of economic [beta]-convergence, which often consider the entire data set as one sample. A technique for the identification of convergence clubs is proposed. The algorithm is based on a modified version...