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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"club convergence"”.
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Convergence across Kazakhstan regions.
… gap. It does so by examining various types of convergence process across the regions of Kazakhstan over the period of 1993-2009. Since different types of convergence reflect different aspects of the problem, we use a variety of concepts and empirical approaches in studying convergence across …
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Empirical studies of convergence in income, productivity and competitiveness: the experience of Asian economies
This thesis comprises three essays on convergence issues in selected Asian countries, focusing on both macro and micro perspectives. These papers encompass issues on convergence testing from time series and panel perspectives, with in-depth coverage on convergence in aggregate and structural ( …
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Essays on Tax Impacts on Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance and Regional Disparity
… Disparity: Evidence from US State Tax Burden Convergence Analysis 1978-2022.</strong> This paper examines the US state tax burden and regional disparity convergence. Rather than relying on commonly-used macro tax measures such as tax collections over GDP, this study employs a novel tax measure …
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Income inequality and economic growth
… models. The third paper revisits the convergence hypothesis test using a new stochastic dominance method. The baseline analysis is carried out with a sample of 100 countries during the period 1960-2000. Together with the robustness check, the analysis yields results that are consistent …
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Essays on motor fuel taxation and price dynamics in the European Union
… Europe. Prior empirical literature on motor fuel convergence either ignores newer member states or was published before data for some of those states was available. The second essay empirically tests for club convergence in prices and taxes for four motor fuels used by the EU. It treats older and …
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Mean reversion in macroeconomic and financial data
… of the beholder. The second essay studies the convergence of per capita income across the world. The recent literature on "convergence" of cross-country per capita incomes has been dominated by the two hypotheses of "global convergence" vs. "club-convergence". Utilizing new measures of …
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Three papers in urban and regional economic and development
… The first chapter focuses on the regional convergence or divergence debate. Current studies have provided conflicting evidences. The regression analysis study (Barro & Sala-i-Martin, 1992) finds evidence supporting regional convergence theory. While the distributional dynamic study (Quah, …