Regional convergence in Italy: time series approaches

Rita De Siano () and Marcella D'Uva

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Abstract: This paper investigates the evolution of the gap between Italian regions and Italy as a whole during the period 1980-2007. We tested for the presence of the stochastic and β-convergence hypotheses using different time series approaches. The former was studied, first, for all the sample period and then, with an exogenous instantaneous break in the series. The presence of β-convergence, instead, was estimated considering a known and an unknown trend break date model. Our results show that most of the regions does not converge in an “actual” way, since they do not present a stochastic and β convergence simultaneously.

Keywords: β-convergence; stochastic convergence; time series approach; regional convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 R11 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11-18
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