Search Results - subject:"Conditional convergence"

Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 238-241

We use US county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9% and the New York estimate is 3.3%. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.

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Long term international GDP projections

Yeung, Wilson Au; Kouparitsas, Michael; Luu, Nghi; … - 2013

This paper develops a framework for projecting the GDP growth of Australia’s trading partners from 2012 to 2050. The framework draws heavily on the existing conditional growth literature, including long-standing estimates of key convergence parameters. It adds to the large amount of research...

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The Growth Comeback in Developing Economies; A New Hope or Back to the Future?

Bluedorn, John C; Duttagupta, Rupa; Guajardo, Jaime; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Growth takeoffs in developing economies have rebounded in the past two decades. Although recent takeoffs have lasted longer than takeoffs before the 1990s, a key question is whether they could unravel like some did in the past. This paper finds that recent takeoffs are associated with stronger...

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Growth Slowdowns and the Middle-Income Trap

Aiyar, Shekhar; Duval, Romain A; Puy, Damien; Wu, Yiqun; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

basic conditional convergence framework. We then examine their determinants by means of probit regressions, looking into the …

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Growth dynamics and conditional convergence among Chinese provinces: a panel data investigation using system GMM estimator

BONNEFOND, Céline - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2013

The paper aims at contributing to the debate on conditional convergence across Chinese provinces by using the most … promoting economic growth and may be considered as mean of reducing regional disparities. Second, the hypothesis of conditional … convergence is verified over the period 1995-2009. Third, the speed of convergence is found to be faster during the period 2004 …

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Heterogeneous Convergence

Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2013

We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.

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Technological catch-up or neoclassical convergence? : identifying the channels of convergence for Italian regions

Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 2 (2013) 4, pp. 169-181

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Vaccination and GDP growth rates : exploring the links in a conditional convergence framework

Masia, Neal A.; Smerling, Jonathan; Kapfidze, Tendayi; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 103 (2018), pp. 88-99

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Ten Years After the CFA Franc Devaluation; Progress toward Regional Integration in the Waemu

Boogaerde, Pierre van den; Tsangarides, Charalambos G. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper takes stock of the achievements toward integration in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) 10 years after the 1994 devaluation of the CFA franc. It investigates the lessons learned and evaluates progress toward economic convergence, examines the evolution of trade and...

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A Contribution to the Empirics of Convergence: the Case of the European State Members

Sousa, Cândido T.; Pereira, Elisabeth T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study aims to examine the absolute and conditional convergence across the 27 EU Member States. To examine the … the Quah model (1993) by graphical analysis. Subsequently, we analyzed the conditional convergence, also estimated by OLS … absolute convergence σ occurs only in the 12 most recent member states. The conditional convergence is verified in general and …

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