Essays about: "Club Convergence"

Found 3 essays containing the words Club Convergence.

  1. 1. Convergence of CO2 emissions in the Americas

    University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Nationalekonomi

    Author : Mikael Arvidsson Martins; [2021]
    Keywords : Carbon Dioxide Emissions; Emission Intensity; Convergence; Club Convergence; The Americas;

    Abstract : Maintaining global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is vital. Whether the convergence hypothesis holds for carbon dioxide emissions is important for policymakers facing this issue. This paper investigates the convergence behavior of carbon dioxide emissions for 39 countries in the Americas from 1960-2016. READ MORE

  3. 2. Increasingly unequal? Convergence of real wages in the EU

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Daniel Edin; [2018]
    Keywords : real wage convergence; sigma convergence; beta convergence; european union; time-series convergence; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The European union has taken steps to remove obstacles for labor mobility and per neoclassical economic theory this should lead to an equalisation of the real wages through an increase in labor mobility. Real wages is an important indicator of welfare and the equalisation process is called convergence by economists. READ MORE

  4. 3. Club Convergence in the European Union - Analyzing the Impact of the Financial Crisis of 2008

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Johannes-Herkules Stefanoudakis; [2011]
    Keywords : Club Convergence; European Union; Financial Crisis; Conditional convergence; Spatial Dependencies;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to empirically identify the impact of the financial crisis of 2008 on the mechanisms of within-club convergence of GDP per capita, for the 27 member countries of the European Union. To tackle this issue, the author first uses spatial filtering methods to identify club formation under a concept of bimodal distribution and then proposes a two-stage framework in which unconditional and conditional convergence are estimated before and after the crisis period. READ MORE