We investigate the impact of financial access on production convergence in the US agricultural sector. Our results reveal a half-life of about three years in per capita agricultural production across the US states. We also find that financial access enhances the speed of convergence. Our results...

This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...