respect to the issue of income convergence across countries and models of technological diffusion. …

-2007. Despite convergence is usually found to occur conditionally to economy-wide factors, this study reveals a clear process of … unconditional convergence for nancial and business-related market services. Indeed this sector is more likely to be characterised by …

One of the most important drawbacks of the existing literature on convergence is that it largely ignores the effect of … care. Failing to do so might in fact lead to an overestimation of the tendency towards either convergence or divergence … introduced when the period of analysis contains incomplete business cycles could be quite sizeable and then analyze convergence …

Conditional distributions for the analysis of convergence are usually estimated using a standard kernel smoother but …

The convergence hypothesis has stimulated a heated debate within the growth literature. The present paper compares the … that the former fails to uncover important features of the dynamics that might characterise the convergence process. Next …

regional level. The convergence process observed until the late seventies was exhausted onwards in coincidence with important … (in our opinion) richer approach to the traditional convergence analysis, where the evolution of the whole regional … convergence analysis. …

This paper illustrates how convergence equations can be used to analyse the dynamics of the income distribution, thus … allowing for the main convergence mechanisms identified in the literature. The estimated model and the underlying data are then … used in a convergence accounting exercise, which yields quantitative estimates of the contribution of each of these …

We reassess convergence of income across countries and its determinants. The ergodic distribution of output per worker …