2009
Distribution and Mobility of Wealth of Nations
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We estimate the empirical bimodal cross-section distribution of real Gross Domestic Product per capita of 120 countries over the period 1960–1989 by a mixture of a Weibull and a truncated normal density. The components of the mixture represent a group of poor and a group of rich countries, while the mixing proportion describes the distribution over poor and rich. This enables us to analyse the development of the mean and variance of both groups separately and the switches of countries between the two groups over time. Empirical evidence indicates that the means of the two groups are diverging in terms of levels, but that the growth rates of the means of the two groups over the period 1960–1989 are the same.
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| convergence, mixture distributions, mobility | |
| Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative (jel N10), Comparative Studies of Countries (jel O57) | |
| Springer International, New York etc. | |
| 978-0-387-72756-1 | |
| hdl.handle.net/1765/16312 | |
| Organisation | Erasmus School of Economics |
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Paap, R, & van Dijk, H.K. (2009). Distribution and Mobility of Wealth of Nations. Springer International, New York etc. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/16312
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