Are Political Freedoms Converging?

Nieswiadomy, Michael; Strazicich, Mark C.

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“…a unit root), therefore the results obtained should be read bearing this in mind (see alsoNieswiadomy and Strazicich 2004).2 The fractional ARIMA (p,d,q) is particularly convenient as it can be used to describe both the long and the short term behaviour of the y t . In fact d determines the long term correlations and the behaviour of the spectral…”

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The Stochastic Convergence of CO2 Emissions: A Long Memory Approach

Barassi

Cole

Elliott

2010

Environ Resource Econ

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In response to equity concerns surrounding the spatial distribution of CO 2 emissions and assumptions of CO 2 convergence within some climate models, this paper examines the convergence of CO 2 emissions within the OECD over the period 1870-2004. More specifically, using the Local Whittle estimator and its variants we examine whether relative per capita CO 2 emissions are fractionally integrated, that is they are long memory processes which, although highly persistant, may revert to the mean/trend in the long run. Our results suggest that CO 2 emissions within 13 out of 18 OECD countries are indeed fractionally integrated implying that they converge over time, albeit slowly. Interestingly though, the countries whose emissions are not found to be fractionally integrated are some of the highest polluters within the OECD, at least in per capita terms. Our results have implications both for future studies of CO 2 convergence and for climate policy.

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The Stochastic Convergence of CO2 Emissions: A Long Memory Approach

Barassi

Cole

Elliott

2010

Environ Resource Econ

105

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“…The last columns in Tables 3 and 4 summarize the results found in this analysis. In this case, and following Tomljanovich and Vogelsang (2002) and Nieswiadomy and Strazicich (2004), C denotes catch-up (those cases in which the unit root hypothesis was rejected in favor of stationarity around different time trends and satisfy the β-convergence hypothesis in equation (5), c denotes catch-up (with only one coefficient, µ 3 or β 3 , statistically significant at 10%), D 12 In all the cases, the dummy variables which account for the structural breaks were significant.…”

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“…Tomljanovich and Vogelsang (2002) and Nieswiadomy and Strazicich (2004), we must study if there has been a catch-up process in per capita output after the structural break for all these cases, so that we run the following regression:…”

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Real convergence in some Central and Eastern European countries

Gracia

Cuñado

2006

Applied Economics

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“…Following Tomljanovich and Vogelsang (2002) and Nieswiadomy and Strazicich (2004), to test for conditional convergence, we perform OLS regressions on the log relative per capita GDP series, for each of these time series, as follows:…”

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Investigating the Convergence Hypothesis in the Eu: More Evidence Accounting for Structural Breaks

Chapsa

Katrakilidis

Tabakis

2014

EU Crisis and the Role of the Periphery

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The aim of this paper is to test the convergence hypothesis for the EU countries with Netherlands which is considered as the benchmark. The empirical analysis uses Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in constant prices of 2005 and covers the period 1950-2010. The empirical approach complementarily employs unit root tests for stochastic convergence and a test proposed by Tomljanovich and Vogelsang (Empirical Econ 27: 49-62, 2002) and Nieswiadomy and Strazicich (Econ Inq 42: 323-340, 2004) that is based on Carlino and Mills' (J Monet Econ 32: 335-346, 1993) methodology. Applying the unit root tests for the relative per capita real GDP series for each country, we are able to reject the unit root hypothesis for 6 out of 14 countries. However, our results suggest there is stronger evidence in favor of convergence when we account for one or two endogenous structural breaks in the intercept and slope of the trend function. Based on Carlino and Mills methodology, we found strong evidence of a catch-up process until the mid-1980 towards the Netherlands for all countries except for the UK, although, after 1985, it is clear that the economies show different behavior which is probably associated with differences in the growth process.

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Are Political Freedoms Converging?

Cited by 50 publications

References 40 publications

The Stochastic Convergence of CO2 Emissions: A Long Memory Approach

The Stochastic Convergence of CO2 Emissions: A Long Memory Approach

Real convergence in some Central and Eastern European countries

Investigating the Convergence Hypothesis in the Eu: More Evidence Accounting for Structural Breaks

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