Search results for "convergence"

Service Regulations, Input Prices and Export Volumes: Evidence from a Panel of Manufacturing Firms

2017

Using a panel of firm‐level data from Spanish manufacturers, this study shows that better service regulation reduces the price of intermediate inputs paid by downstream firms. The beneficial cost effects of services reforms extend to both large and small‐to‐medium sized corporations (SME’s), but the former tend to enjoy greater gains. This feature also manifests itself in international markets. We find evidence of an input cost channel through which service regulations affect the volume of exports of large manufacturers, while the evidence of such a channel is weaker for SME’s. Our estimates indicate that, from 1991 to 2007, large firms increased their volume of exports by an average of 20 …

Convergence, Human Capital and International Spillovers

2006

Dijon; Document de travail du Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion (UMR 5118 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne) 2006-03

Convergence of iterative methods in perturbation theory

1995

We discuss iterative KAM type methods for eigenvalue problems in finite dimensions. We compare their convergence properties with those of straight forward power series expansions.

A Test of Spatial Convergence from the Micro-Level

2010

Exploring the tourism markets’ convergence hypothesis in Italy

2020

This article aims at investigating the tourism markets’ convergence hypothesis across Italy’s 20 major source markets. To reach our goal, we use monthly data of tourist arrivals and overnights over the period 2008–2018 and the time-varying factor model developed by Phillips and Sul (2007, 2009). Our findings suggest the absence of full (absolute) convergence, leading us to accept the hypothesis of club convergence. We show that the traditionally more important source markets have a tendency to persist, while Asian countries show heterogeneous behaviour. Furthermore, the relative decline in the contribution to total arrivals and overnights of several international source markets calls for a…

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics method via residual iteration

2019

Abstract In this paper we propose for the first time an iterative approach of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. The method is widespread in many areas of science and engineering and despite its extensive application it suffers from several drawbacks due to inaccurate approximation at boundaries and at irregular interior regions. The presented iterative process improves the accuracy of the standard method by updating the initial estimates iterating on the residuals. It is appealing preserving the matrix-free nature of the method and avoiding to modify the kernel function . Moreover the process refines the SPH estimates and it is not affected by disordered data distribution. W…

On the convergence of fixed point iterations for the moving geometry in a fluid-structure interaction problem

2019

In this paper a fluid-structure interaction problem for the incompressible Newtonian fluid is studied. We prove the convergence of an iterative process with respect to the computational domain geometry. In our previous works on numerical approximation of similar problems we refer this approach as the global iterative method. This iterative approach can be understood as a linearization of the so-called geometric nonlinearity of the underlying model. The proof of the convergence is based on the Banach fixed point argument, where the contractivity of the corresponding mapping is shown due to the continuous dependence of the weak solution on the given domain deformation. This estimate is obtain…

�ber ein Verfahren der Ordnung $$1 + \sqrt 2 $$ zur Nullstellenbestimmung

1979

A new iterative method for solving nonlinear equations is presented which is shown to converge locally withR-order of convergence $$1 + \sqrt 2 $$ at least under suitable differentiability assumptions. The method needs as many function evaluations per step as the classical Newton method.

Some supplementary results on the 1+ $$\sqrt 2 $$ order method for the solution of nonlinear equations

1982

Recently an iterative method for the solution of systems of nonlinear equations having at leastR-order 1+ $$\sqrt 2 $$ for simple roots has been investigated by the author [7]; this method uses as many function evaluations per step as the classical Newton method. In the present note we deal with several properties of the method such as monotone convergence, asymptotic inclusion of the solution and convergence in the case of multiple roots.

La convergence des systèmes nationaux de gouvernance: une perspective contingente

2009

The objective of this paper is to show that the answer to the question of convergence of national systems of governance is contingent on a number of assumptions. The first assumption bears on the functions and the formal mechanisms characterizing the systems of governance. The second concerns the possibility to define a unique national system of governance for all the firms of a nation. The third focuses on the process of homogenization of national systems of governance attributed to globalization.