Concordant Convergence Empirics

Don Webber and Paul White
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Paul White: Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England

No 409, Working Papers from Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol

Abstract: We present a new model to test the convergence hypothesis based on the ideas of concordance and then employ the model to test empirically for GDP per capita convergence across 97 countries. Our results suggest the presence of switching, while there is more ‘strong divergence’ than ‘strong convergence’.

Keywords: Convergence; Concordance; Income per capita. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 F19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2004-12
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