This chapter reviews recent literature that considers and explains the tendency for
neighborhood and city-level economic status to rise and fall. A central message is that …

In this paper, we suggest a framework that allows testing simultaneously for temporal
heterogeneity, spatial heterogeneity, and spatial autocorrelation in β‐convergence models …

This paper introduces the appropriate econometric methodology and statistical tests to
evaluate the spatial and sectoral stability of the labour productivity convergence process of …

At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting
profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle …

Convergence and spillovers across countries and within countries are old, but recurrent
policy concerns, and India is no exception to this rule. This paper examines convergence …

This study empirically applies the spatial switching regression method to an analysis of
regional income club convergence across the 177 economic areas in the contiguous US …

We apply the Pesaran (2007) pair-wise approach of convergence to the per capita outputs of
195 European regions for the period 1980–2006. Pesaran's approach is based on the …

We perform convergence tests on the US states for per capita income from 1930 to 2009.
Cross‐sectional tests support overall σ‐convergence and β‐convergence but may not hold …

Has the progress of output convergence changed within the United States? This article
examines the output convergence among US states for the last five decades by making …

Long-run income convergence is investigated in the US context. We employ a novel
pairwise econometric procedure based on a probabilistic definition of convergence. The …