Convergence Empirics Across Economies with (Some) Capital Mobility

Journal of Economic Growth

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-124

  Quah, Danny T ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convergence club; Distribution dynamics; Polarization; Stochastic kernel; Twin peaks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001072623     PISSN: 13814338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00163344     Document Type: Article

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