This paper investigates the convergence behaviour of carbon dioxide emissions for 39 countries in the Americas from 1960-2016. A linear regression test of convergence which looks for conditional sigma convergence is employed, and a clustering algorithm is used to identify convergence clubs. The...

This article takes stock of the regulatory convergence between US antitrust law and EU competition law in the field of international air transport. The analysis draws a distinction between domestic aviation and international aviation and sets the boundaries of regulatory convergence in...

During modern times there are two major competing economic systems: Capitalism and Socialism. Although by the middle of the twentieth century Socialism had included almost one-third of the world’s population and then it declined, in terms of practical impact Capitalism has outshined Socialism...

Attribute-based pricing---giving a price to potential product attributes individually and allowing customers to choose the attributes that form the final product---has been shown to improve customer satisfaction in the hospitality industry. In this paper, we consider the problem of finding...

During the last decades, the share of manufacturing in aggregate output (and employment) has declined in almost all advanced and emerging economies. In this paper, we investigated the patterns of deindustrialization in a sample of 117 (low-, middle-, and high-income) countries from 1995 to 2018....

In this article, Luc Godbout and Michaël Robert-Angers assess whether the burden of taxation and the tax structures used to collect tax revenues are converging among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). After defining the concept of convergence...

No one in the World and in particular the Economist's community could have gathered an understanding about the manner in which this Pandemic have erupted or shaken the economies. Developing countries particularly South Asian Economies, and within them, the Lower middle Income (LMI) countries...

Korean small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry have formed the foundation for the industrialization of Korea by playing an important role for the country’s economic development. Some of the reasons for the drastic growth of SMEs since the early 1980s are stable...