Convergence Clubs in Aggregate Efficiency

Carlos Mendez-Guerra

Chapter Chapter 6 in Convergence Clubs in Labor Productivity and its Proximate Sources, 2020, pp 53-58 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter studies convergence in aggregate efficiency across developed and developing countries, respectively. Through the lens of a non-linear dynamic factor model, the cross-country dynamics of aggregate efficiency are evaluated over the 1990–2014 period. Results reject the hypothesis that all countries would eventually converge to a common steady-state growth path within their respective groups. Developed countries are characterized by three convergence clubs with largely parallel trends. Developing countries are characterized by four convergence clubs with largely widening gaps between the upper and lower tails of the efficiency distribution.

Keywords: Club convergence; Aggregate efficiency; Non-linear dynamic factor model; Developed countries; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8629-3_6

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