The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of unified Germany … derives fiscal policy rules which establish convergence of regional output per capita and convergence of regional human wealth …. To assess the speed of convergence the model is calibrated with German data. Given a fiscal policy rule that is …

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after … particular, we follow a distributional approach to convergence based on kernel density estimation and implement a number of tests …