经济增长收敛的计量研究评述

Reviews of Measuring Methods and Empirical Analysis on Economic Growth Convergence

经济增长的收敛性是近年来经济学界研究的热点,而分析方法的选择对课题的研究至关重要。将经济增长收敛的分析方法归结为β收敛、σ收敛和随机收敛三类,在阐述各种分析方法的同时,对其存在的优点和缺陷进行了评价,同时,对相关的实证研究文献进行了梳理和总结。认为,在提高数据的质量和合理地选择样本期的前提下,只有采取多种分析方法相结合的办法,才能够得出有关地区经济增长收敛性的科学结论。

Economic growth convergence has been a hot issue of research in economics circle in recent years,but the choice of analyzing methods is the most important aspect for the research.This paper analyzes three different types of convergence： β- convergence , σ- convergence and stochastic convergence and appraises their advantages and defects, meanwhile it hackles and summarizes literatures of empirical analysis. The paper suggests that only adopting multiple methods at the same time , Scientific conclusions on economic growth convergence can be reached under the condition of high data quality and reasonable sample period.