This study aims to examine the absolute and conditional convergence across the 27 EU Member States. To examine the absolute β convergence was used Baumol model (1986) estimated by OLS and Panel Data, and to examine the absolute σ convergence the Quah model (1993) by graphical analysis....

The modern economies of nowadays are monetary economies, where money has a key role in the development, stability and welfare of nations and their populations. Keynes (1936) emphasized that the Economies of 20th century were not more change economies but monetary economies in which money have a...

This paper focuses on the properties of the adjustment between the real output and the unemployment rate for the U.S. economy in the period from 1975 to 2006. It starts by checking the order of integration of the two series and then tests for the presence of asymmetry in the Okun’s law...