Testing stochastic income convergence in seasonal heterogeneous panels

Nuri Ucar () and Hüseyin Güler

Economic Modelling, 2010, vol. 27, issue 1, 422-431

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a seasonal version of the Solow-Swan growth model and acquire an empirical income convergence equation. We take this equation as a basis to investigate whether income convergence exists in an OECD sample. To do this, we propose the test statistics under various asymptotic properties for some of the seasonal frequencies in the context of nonstationary heterogeneous panels. Critical values and moments of our statistics are generated and their finite sample performances are examined via Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords: Bootstrap; Convergence; HEGY; Seasonal; panel; unit; root (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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