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We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence …
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-economy income convergence. Where RCK predicts partial income and consumption convergence between open economies Solow predicts full … convergence. This paper presents, by a small modification of the savings behavior in the Solow model, a framework that matches RCK … country size; that income growth will be a U-shaped function of initial income thus creating differentiated convergence; and …
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This paper contributes towards the growing debate concerning the world distribution of income and its evolution over that past three to four decades. Our methodological approach is twofold. First, we formally test for the number of modes in a cross-sectional analysis where each country is...
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We analyze the cross-national distribution of GDP per capita and its evolution from 1970 to 2003. We argue that peaks are not a suitable measure for distinct growth regimes, because the number of peaks is not invariant under strictly monotonic transformations of the data (e.g. original vs. log...
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