the impact of culture in inhibiting convergence of corporate governance. Overall, the paper provides an appraisal of … corporate governance laws in stakeholder-oriented states that have endured market pressure for convergence. Design … three continents with stakeholder-oriented corporate governance model to determine the effect of culture in the convergence …

simulation experiments(over a 20-year period) to quantify the importance of convergence, household fixed effectsand shocks. First …, we find powerful convergence. In the absence of shocks and withouthousehold fixed effects there is rapid growth over the …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …

convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – -convergence, σ-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence), to … countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the sample consisted …

and disscussed the convergence hypothesis in the light of LeSange and Fischer (2008) formulation. The study concludes that … the later reform period has witnessed beta convergence due to feedback effect. …

convergence, and estimates the future steady-state or long-run distribution of energy intensity for the OECD. The paper finds that … of convergence. However, convergence is conditioned on country specific factors since differences in individual energy …