Modeling human behavior in economics and social science

M Dolfin, L Leonida, N Outada - Physics of life reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The complex interactions between human behaviors and social economic sciences is
critically analyzed in this paper in view of possible applications of mathematical modeling as …

Great divergence and great convergence

L Grinin, A Korotayev - A Global Perspective. N. p.: Springer International …, 2015 - Springer
Since man first forged metal tools and started farming for his food, thus emerging from the
stone age, no event in human history has had a greater impact than the Industrial Revolution …

Does economic convergence hold? A spatial quantile analysis on European regions

A Cartone, P Postiglione, GJD Hewings - Economic Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates differences in economic growth determinants for 187 regions across
12 European countries. The study focuses on a period of increasing inequalities including …

Global unconditional convergence among larger economies after 1998?

K Andrey, Z Julia, B Justislav… - Journal of Globalization …, 2011 - cyberleninka.ru
We find rather strong evidence for the unconditional convergence among all the larger
countries comprising the overwhelming majority of the world population and producing the …

On the structure of the present-day convergence

A Korotayev, J Zinkina - Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–A substantial number of researchers have investigated the global economic
dynamics of this time to disprove unconditional convergence and refute its very idea, stating …

International output convergence, breaks, and asymmetric adjustment

DK Christopoulos, MA Leon-Ledesma - Studies in Nonlinear …, 2011 - degruyter.com
We present time series evidence on output convergence for 14 countries relative to the US
for the 1900-2008 period. We develop tests that allow for an unknown number of breaks in …

Will the explosive growth of China continue?

L Grinin, S Tsirel, A Korotayev - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2015 - Elsevier
The role of China in the world economy is constantly growing. In particular we observe that it
plays more and more important role in the support of the world economic growth (as well as …

Switching and asymmetric behaviour of the Okun coefficient in the US: Evidence for the 1948–2015 period

A Valadkhani, R Smyth - Economic Modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether the relationship between unemployment and output, known
as Okun's law, has been stable in the United States (US) in the period since World War II. A …

Does China's green economic recovery generate a spatial convergence trend: an explanation using agglomeration effects and fiscal instruments

Q Kong, R Li, Y Ni, D Peng - Economic Change and Restructuring, 2022 - Springer
China's urbanization process has entered a period of rapid development, and cities have
become key to driving regional economic development. This paper uses data from 286 cities …

What Have We Not Learned from the Convergence Debate?

L Leonida - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
We argue that the alternative hypotheses about cross-country convergence dynamics,
namely the Conditional Convergence Hypothesis, Absolute Convergence Hypothesis, and …