60996 20190709135533.0 doi 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2017-4 sideral 98586 ART-2017-98586 eng (orcid)0000-0001-6609-4247 Gadea Rivas, M. D. Universidad de Zaragoza Testing the convergence hypothesis for OECD countries: A reappraisal 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper reviews the results of a number of empirical studies of convergence among the OECD countries and discusses some limitations of these studies. Moreover, the paper tries to deal with these limitations by presenting a new and more appropriate methodology: quantile regressions. The results obtained with this specification support the view that, even among the OECD countries, there are different clusters. The parameter representing the convergence hypothesis, despite being negative in every case, is higher in value and more significant as we advance to higher quantiles. These outcomes reveal a faster convergence between the countries that belong to the upper quantiles. Moreover, 1960-1970 is highlighted as the period in which convergence was more intense. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICYT/ECON2008-03040 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICYT/ECO2011-30260-C03-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.545 2017 ECONOMICS 286 / 353 = 0.81 2017 Q4 T3 0.256 2017 Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) 2017 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion (orcid)0000-0001-7448-2346 Sanz Villarroya, I. Universidad de Zaragoza 4008 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb. Área Economía Aplicada 11 (2017), [22 pp.] ECONOMICS-THE OPEN ACCESS OPEN-ASSESSMENT E-JOURNAL ECONOMICS-THE OPEN ACCESS OPEN-ASSESSMENT E-JOURNAL 1864-6042 614795 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/60996/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 52013 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/60996/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:60996 articulos driver 2019-07-09-12:03:13 ARTICLE