We show that, contrary to the beliefs of some previous analysts of international economic growth, the hypotheses of convergence and of mean-reversion are not equivalent. Under some assumptions, the ...

We perform convergence tests on the U.S. states for per capita income from 1930 to 2009. Cross-sectional tests support overall σ-convergence and β-convergence but may not hold true for the last three ...

One of the exciting and frustrating things about convergence, particularly in healthcare, is that it’s tough to predict how the hybrid technologies will find their way to market. The process of ...

An important question in evolutionary genetics concerns the extent to which adaptive convergence in protein function is caused by convergent or parallel changes at the amino acid level. Even when ...