This paper aims to determine whether there is any convergence at all between the economic activities of the Colombian … Cundinamarca and Antioquia examples of outstanding performance. This way, it is concluded that there is convergence between the … Colombian municipalities for the period analyzed, reaching an approximate convergence speed of 3.34% per annum. …

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …

of accessibility. In estimating regressions on conditional beta-convergence, the inclusion of national dummies shows a … reduced speed of convergence (in the total and the western sample) and even divergence in the sample of (former communist) new … convergence. The estimates indicate significant lower steady state incomes in the peripheral agrarian regions, peripheral …

evidence of convergence. With a modified estimator with variable bandwidth and mean-bias correction, the dominant income …

in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …

electricity-intensity convergence across the Chinese provinces. Unlike previous work, this paper highlights the relevance of the … convergence. We perform several unit root tests that introduce structural breaks, nonlinearities and time variation, with the aim … over time. However, this convergence pattern occurs within groups of regions, according with club convergence test. Indeed …

same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …

same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …

In this paper we outline (i) why ó-convergence may not accompany â- convergence, (ii)cite evidence of â-convergence in … the U.S., (iii) and use USA county-level data containing over 3,000 cross-sectional observations to demonstrate that ó-convergence …