I want to implement both unconditional and conditional convergency analysis for the 26 regions of Turkey on my study. the variable that I will use is per-capita income of Turkey.Is this analysis implemented by using E-views program? If analysised, how should I carry it out? Are there any codes and package programs for Eviews?
when I examined the literatures as to convergence, I found that non-lineer least square method is able to be used to analyse the convergence for any country as well as panel unit root test. Is there any econometrics program which includes this method?
Huseyin Gunsuz
Following study may help you to insight theoretical back ground of convergence
Durusu-Ciftci, D., & Nazlioğlu, Ş. (2019). Does Income Converge in Turkey? an Empirical Assessment. Ege Akademik Bakış Dergisi, 19(1), 15-32.
Regards.
I think you should just regress GDP growth to lagged log of GDP, i.e. run the regression is a form:
DLOG(GDP) = C(1) + C(2)*LOG(GDP(-1))
to get uncondicional Beta convergence. If you wish to go fo conditional, please extent the regression with some other variable (investment rate, humal capital or schooling ration, inflation, fixed effects, etc.)
you should get the information about Income lagged-1 on independent variables to make sure your model is convergence or not.
About the software, you can take e-views to solve those problems, or I will suggest you take stata software.
Bramastyo Bontas Prastowo
thank you for your interest. which softwares should I use in stata? Could you send me these codes or softwares that you suggested