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Testing for Convergence. A Panel of 25 Major Economies, 1960-88

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Travaglini, Guido () (Istituto di Economia e Finanza (Institute of Economics and Finance) Facoltà di Giurisprudenza (Faculty of Law) Università degli Studi di Roma)

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Income convergence is here tested for the 25 nonoil Heston-Summers countries for which physical capital data are available. ß-convergence is tested via a dynamic Cobb-Douglas growth equation both in panel and in single-country form. õ-convergence is tested for the stationarity of unconditional and conditional time series of single~country income deviations from the sample mean. Although the two methods are (weakly) related to each other, conflicting results emerge: while conditional ß -convergencc cannot be significantly rejected (accepted) at the panel (single-country) level, both unconditional and conditional õ -convergence cannot be significantly accepted at the single-country level. In essence, while the two forms of convergence are empirically inconsistent with one another, the country-specific growth story holds very well, insofar as its standard determinants widely differ among nations.

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Article provided by Camera di Commercio di Genova in its journal Economia Internazionale / International Economics.

Volume (Year): 51 (1998)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 115-142
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