Beschreibung:
Michä Bernardelli is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Graduate Studies at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He is a Doctor of mathematics with habilitation in the field of economic sciences. The interdisciplinarity of his scientific works is based mainly on the use of the IT and mathematical apparatus to solve problems in areas related to data analysis and exploration, in particular in Big Data issues, predictive methods, and optimization. For almost 20 years, he was a lecturer at courses related to studies in quantitative methods, as well as a consultant and contractor of many scientific and commercial projects.
This book addresses the concept of real economic convergence or the gradual levelling off of GDP per capita rates across economies. It will stimulate further research in the field but conducted from the point of view of individual countries.
1. Real income-level convergence: The theoretical background 2. Hidden Markov models as an example of an alternative approach to convergence 3. Different approaches to regional convergence 4. Conventional convergence in the worldwide perspective 5. Application of the Hidden Markov Models in convergence studies: a worldwide perspective