The paper examines Latin American countries' productivity growth levels and their convergence patterns utilizing nonparametric frontier approaches. Utilizing a sample of 17 Latin American countries for the period 1970-2014 it estimates various productivity indexes alongside with their main...

The objective of this study is to examine the convergence patterns of decoupling factors of three environmental hazards (CO2, SO2, and NOX) from economic growth across the U.S. regions over the period 1990-2017. By applying the Phillips and Sul (2007, 2009) methodology, we unravel convergence...