It's still 2%: evidence on convergence from 116 years of the US States panel data
| Contribuinte(s) |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa |
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| Data(s) |
15/09/2005
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| Resumo |
A new debate over the speed of convergence in per capita income across economies is going on. Cross sectional estimates support the idea of slow convergence of about two percent per year. Panel data estimates support the idea of fast convergence of five, ten or even twenty percent per year. This paper shows that, if you ``do it right'', even the panel data estimation method yields the result of slow convergence of about two percent per year. |
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| Idioma(s) |
eng |
| Direitos |
L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/</a> |
| Palavras-Chave | #Macroeconomics and International Economics #income convergence #panel data estimation #biases #maximum likelihood #us states |
| Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
