advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic andRussia, economies that represent …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency … development has resulted in convergence of domestic firms to the world standard. …

The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysiswith the aim of reviewing … convergence inEurope that cannot be adequately captured by the non-spatial growth regression models thathave dominated the … research and policy debate in this field. Evidence for convergence andspatial dependence emerges especially when estimations …