Abstract The Phillips‐Sul approach to testing the club convergence hypothesis has attracted
considerable research interest in recent years due to its advantages over alternative …

Energy security represents the national strength to defuse energy risks. However, to date,
relatively few studies have focused on regional energy security within a country, its …

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit strong unconditional
convergence in labor productivity. The article documents this at various levels of …

We examine the record of cross-country growth over the past fifty years and ask if
developing countries have made progress on closing the income gap between their per …

Studies of convergence in the 1990s found no tendency for poor countries to catch up with
rich ones. If anything, there was divergence: rich countries growing faster than poor …

The central fact that has motivated the empirics of economic growth—namely unconditional
divergence—is no longer true and has not been so for decades. Across a range of data …

This paper provides a new dataset of regional income inequalities within countries based on
satellite nighttime light data. First, we empirically study the relationship between luminosity …

We examine conventional and environmentally sensitive total factor productivity (TFP) in 41
developed and developing countries over the period of 1971 to 1992. Due to the non …

The recent economic and financial crisis has generated significant and particularly adverse
effects in Spain. All the regions were strongly affected, albeit with notable differences. The …

Ecological footprint has been widely accepted as an indicator of environmental performance
in recent years since it considers carbon dioxide emissions, the collapse of fisheries, the …