to the concepts of ƒã- and ƒÒ-convergence and emphasizes the importance of including spatial effects and a disaggregated … analysis at a sectoral level. We detect a significant -convergence only in aggregate labor productivity and in the services … sectors among peripheral regions. We also show that omitting spatial effects leads to biased measures of -convergence. We then …

having no such a trend. It is found that s-convergence of regional prices takes place, implying that, despite the presence of …

This paper explores the implications that spatial effects can hold for the application of measures of sigma-convergence …. The bias of a common indicator of convergence is examined for a family of spatial process models including: [a] spatial … lag, [b] spatial error, and [c] spatial moving average. We show that the measure of sigma-convergence is sensitive to a …