convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …

terms of their convergence in selected macroeconomic fundamentals. The analysis uses monthly data on industrial output … natural economic integration among them so far. Certain levels of convergence occurred only for a limited number of countries …

This paper assesses convergence in output per head across regions in the European Community (EC), for the period 1975 …<196>90. We use three alternative methodologies to measure convergence, which yield consistent results. We observe that there are … strong differences in the pattern of convergence across sub-periods and across subsets of regions. If Southern Europe seemed …

This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … shown that, although this effect did slow down convergence, its magnitude was too small to account for the discrepancy …