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ASYMPTOTICALLY PERFECT AND RELATIVE CONVERGENCE OF PRODUCTIVITY
Programs, August 1998. Bart Hobijn and Philip Hans Franses
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Revision, September 2005:
The PValue.G procedure has been corrected. We would like to thank 
Zijun Wang for pointing out a mistake in the procedure.
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Please refer to paper when presenting results obtained with these programs.
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The programs and data consist of the following files:

The following files are in CONVERGE.ZIP:

Example programs:
PWT      GSS         1,812  12-15-98  6:32p PWT.GSS
BERNDURL GSS         1,859  12-15-98  6:29p BERNDURL.GSS

GAUSS-procedures:
LOCMIN   G             447  08-02-98 10:11p LOCMIN.G
COINTMAT G             479  08-29-98 12:01a COINTMAT.G
CLUSTER  G           7,704  12-15-98  6:18p cluster.g
CLUSOUT  G           1,145  03-12-95  1:25p CLUSOUT.G
CLUSCORR G             669  08-20-98  2:38p CLUSCORR.G
MVKPSS   G             951  08-21-98 12:23p MVKPSS.G
PVALUE   G           2,000  08-20-98 10:33a PVALUE.G
NEWEYWST G             782  07-24-98  3:00p NEWEYWST.G
BARTLETT G             599  01-01-97  7:51p BARTLETT.G
LAGMAT   G             103  07-22-98  9:29p LAGMAT.G

Datafiles to calculate p-values (used by cluster.g):
ASYMDST0 DAT        39,600  08-03-98  5:49a ASYMDST0.DAT
ASYMDST0 DHT           920  08-03-98  5:49a ASYMDST0.DHT
ASYMDST1 DAT        39,600  08-03-98  5:49a ASYMDST1.DAT
ASYMDST1 DHT           920  08-03-98  5:49a ASYMDST1.DHT

Datafiles:
PWT      DAT        26,880  12-15-98  6:31p PWT.DAT
PWT      DHT         1,024  12-15-98  6:31p PWT.DHT
BERNDURL DHT           256  03-19-97  7:19p BERNDURL.DHT
BERNDURL DAT        11,264  03-19-97  7:19p BERNDURL.DAT

This file:
README   TXT           299  12-15-98  6:37p readme.txt

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Datafiles:

Both data files contain per capita RGDP levels in ppp dollars with baseyear
1980 for the Bernard and Durlauf-data and 1985 for the PWT-data.

The datafiles have the following format.
=>  Series are in columns.
=>  Headers contain the country abbreviation corresponding to the series in
    the respective column.
=>  First column contains the year.
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GAUSS-procedures:
Hopefully the comments suffice when using them. They have been tested in
GAUSS 3.2.1 for DOS. If you have any questions of problems, please contact
Bart Hobijn (hobijnb@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu).

