convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …

growth phases. Results show that expansionary regimes are associated with convergence and positive correlation between growth …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between regional convergence inside of countries in EU and … the correlation between the convergence process and economic growth we focused, as it is usually used in specialised … literature to analyse the real convergence, on the dynamics of GDP per capita expressed in case of EU by PPS (Purchasing Power …

-country convergence. When the observed changes in average household size across countries are taken into consideration, growth in living … divergence between different countries before 1950 is faster and the speed of convergence after 1950 is slower after adjusting …

-economy income convergence. Where RCK predicts partial income and consumption convergence between open economies Solow predicts full … convergence. This paper presents, by a small modification of the savings behavior in the Solow model, a framework that matches RCK … country size; that income growth will be a U-shaped function of initial income thus creating differentiated convergence; and …

/N). Then, the Caselli-Tenreyro decomposition is used to explore whether labour-productivity convergence (or divergence) at the …

. While the primary measure for convergence and catching up is per capita output, we also look at other macroeconomic … studies of convergence between regions of reunified Germany, our approach is purely based upon the time series dimension and … process. In our analysis, we find evidence of catching up for East Germany for most of the indicators. However, convergence …