Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …

within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …

activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore this paper studies the … regional convergence from trade in Mexico after NAFTA. Unlike previous papers, working with municipal-level data allows to … observe more clearly the convergence patterns across space and to identify the effect of NAFTA, respectively. Result shows …

This paper studies the convergence in the European Union on Purchasing Power Parity. Firstly, we develop a method for … period January 1995 to July 2003. Secondly, convergence is studied using distribution dynamics from the continuous and … discrete approximations. Results show some slow convergence in the European Union. Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity …

, the central idea of regional policy, which defines community convergence tools, would be questioned. Results show … of the region’s natural resources. Key Words: Structural Funds; Ex-post Evaluation; Convergence; Input-Output; Cross …

stimulate growth in the less developed countries. In fact, according to our estimates, with an annual β-convergence of 2% in …

Economic convergence: a regional and subregional view Manuel Pérez Montiel Gislaine Cristina de Souza Rech Judite … Sanson de Bem The study of economic convergence among nations is based on the initial work of Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991 …), a topic of spatial econometric analysis Recently, research on economic convergence have been directed towards smaller …

investigating pairwise convergence of output in panel data sets of n countries, n(n-1)/2 tests are performed. We propose to control … show that convergence in panels of per capita output using a time series definition with the necessary condition of no unit …

the empirical results caused by the use of different spatial scales in the analysis of convergence process of European … (MAUP). Thus, convergence processes among EU15 are examined across three spatial scales often used in applied work, namely …, NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3, between 2000 and 2008. The paper suggests that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the …