Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Matthew E. Oliver and Gregory B. Upton Jr.
Title:  Are Energy Endowed Countries Responsible for Conditional Convergence?
Classification-JEL: O13,O47,Q32,Q43
Volume:  Volume 43
Issue:  Number 3
Year:  2022
Abstract:  We test for economic convergence in GDP per capita and consumption per capita within two distinct sets of countries: those with significant (and plausibly exogenous) fossil fuel (FF) endowments and those without such endowments. Among countries with FF endowments, we find evidence of both absolute and conditional convergence across both macroeconomic dimensions, as indicated by standard ²- and Ã-convergence tests. By contrast, we do not find robust evidence of convergence among countries without FF endowments. This patternconvergence among FF-endowed and non-convergence among non-endowed countriesis robust to changes in the sample period, controlling for potential resource curse effects, and is largely consistent across growth components. We discuss the implications for economic development and comment on its implications for global decarbonization policies. 
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