Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Girardin, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the … spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by … model the estimated convergence rate is 0.8% for unconditional regression and 1.7% for condtional regression, the …