Structural change and economic development: is Brazil catching up or falling behind?

Catching Up or Falling Behind? Income Distribution of Chinese Cities

This paper analyzes the evolution of Chinese urban income distribution across space and time in post-reform era. Our results suggest no evidence on income convergence across cities during the period 1984-2003. We find that cities with comparable income level are likely to be co-located in the same region; further, cities tend to mirror the mobility of their counterparts located in the same prov...

Catching up , forging ahead or falling behind ? Central and Eastern European development in 1990 2005

This paper aims to assess the economic development and development policies in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in 199

Catching up, Forging ahead, and Falling behind: A Panel Structure Analysis of Convergence Clubs∗

The paper advocates and implements a new panel structure model to investigate the club convergence hypothesis. The model consists of a set of linear dynamic models that characterize the behavior of growth rates within each convergence club and a logistic regression that classifies these linear models. An EM algorithm is used to estimate the system by maximum likelihood and inference is conducte...

Catching-up and falling behind: Effects of learning in an R&D differential game with spillovers

In this paper we analyze the dynamics of an R&D differential game allowing for technological spillovers and sigmoid learning functions of multiproduct oligopolies. We demonstrate how the presence of learning together with spillovers may generate a rich set of outcomes, varying from constant leadership to catching-up and falling behind as well as from technology lock-in to a situation with a lar...

Economic Development And Structural Change