This research investigates the impact of trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth. Using a … and Lee (2010), and Polity IV Project datasets. The empirical analysis shows that conditional convergence occurs among the … countries in the sample and that FDI net inflows per worker slightly increases the speed of conditional convergence. This study …

This paper analyses the impact of technological capabilities on convergence. While looking at the relevance of … income, we provide econometric tests on the role of technology in determining convergence outcomes in a growth regression …-2014. Our results show that convergence is conditional on technological capabilities. This finding is robust to controlling for …

This paper analyses the impact of technological capabilities on convergence. While looking at the relevance of … income, we provide econometric tests on the role of technology in determining convergence outcomes in a growth regression …-2014. Our results show that convergence is conditional on technological capabilities. This finding is robust to controlling for …

examine the impact of openness on growth and convergence in labor productivity in the Chinese provinces during the period 1984 …–2008. The study finds that regional openness has a significantly positive effect on regional growth in labor productivity in the … Chinese provinces. When regional heterogeneity and regional openness are accounted for, the study finds fast conditional …

, China's regional TFP growth is positively related to regional openness and negatively related to the current level of … a nonlinear least squares regression method, we show that regional openness has a significantly positive effect on …

liberalizations affect the speed of convergence of an economy. We show that financial liberalizations reduce short run convergence …

This paper analyses the impact of technological capabilities on convergence. While looking at the relevance of … income, we provide econometric tests on the role of technology in determining convergence outcomes in a growth regression …-2014. Our results show that convergence is conditional on technological capabilities. This finding is robust to controlling for …