• Convergence patterns in the world economy: Exploring the nonlinearity hypothesis 

      Artelaris, P.; Arvanitidis, P. A.; Petrakos, G. (2011)
      Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate convergence or divergence trends at global scale. Design/methodology/approach: The paper questions the methodology and findings of the conventional convergence literature ...
    • European Regional Convergence Revisited: A Weighted Least Squares Approach 

      Petrakos, G.; Artelaris, P. (2009)
      A plethora of past studies have concluded that unconditional beta-convergence is present in a broad sample of regions, implying that poor regions grow faster than rich ones. All these econometric studies tend to overlook ...
    • Regional inequalities in Greece 

      Petrakos, G.; Artelaris, P. (2008)
      The aim of this chapter is to study the regional inequalities among 51 Greek (NUTS III) regions during the period 1981-2004. The vast majority of studies that have examined this issue use GDP per capita as an indicator of ...