Publications

Carlos Mendez, Mehak Sachdeva (2025). On the political and socioeconomic geography of violence: Spatial heterogeneity and scale effects in Brazil. Spatial Economic Analysis.

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Hussein Suleiman, Minh-Thu Thi Nguyen, Carlos Mendez (2025). Predicting subnational GDP in Vietnam with remote sensing data: A machine learning approach. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.

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Linda Glawe, Carlos Mendez (2024). Harmonized luminosity and economic activity across provinces in China: Cross-sectional differences, regional time series, and inequality dynamics. Applied Economics.

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Carlos Mendez, Ayush Patnaik (2024). Exploring Economic Activity from Outer Space: A Python Notebook for Processing and Analyzing Satellite Nighttime Lights. REGION.

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Chen Yilin, Ursavas Ugur, Carlos Mendez (2024). Can higher-quality nighttime lights predict sectoral GDP across subnational regions? Urban and rural luminosity across provinces in Türkiye. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.

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Carlos Mendez, Tifani Siregar (2023). Regional unemployment dynamics in Indonesia: Serial persistence, spatial dependence, and common factors. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.

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Harry Aginta, Carlos Mendez, Masakazu Someya (2023). Regional Okun’s law and endogeneity: evidence from the Indonesian districts. Applied Economics Letters.

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Eleonora Cutrini, Carlos Mendez (2023). Convergence clubs and spatial structural change in the European Union. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Carlos Mendez (2023). Measuring and understanding regional inequality through the lens of the Indonesian experience. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science.

Ugur Ursavas, Carlos Mendez (2022). Regional income convergence and conditioning factors in Turkey: Revisiting the role of spatial dependence and neighbor effects. Annals of Regional Science.

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Linda Glawe, Carlos Mendez (2022). Schooling ain’t learning in Europe: A club convergence perspective. Comparative Economic Studies.

Cani Miranti, Carlos Mendez (2022). Social and economic convergence across districts in Indonesia: A spatial econometric approach. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies.

Katikar Tipayalai, Carlos Mendez (2022). Regional convergence and spatial dependence in Thailand: Global and local assessments. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

Carlos Mendez, Felipe Santos (2022). Economic and social disparities across subnational regions of South America: A spatial convergence approach. Comparative Economic Studies.

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Alvaro Dominguez, Felipe Santos, Carlos Mendez (2021). Sectoral productivity convergence, input-output structure, and network communities in Japan. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Anang Gunawan, Carlos Mendez, Shigeru Otsubo (2021). Provincial income convergence clubs in Indonesia: Identification and conditioning factors. Growth and Change.

Carlos Mendez, Erick Gonzales (2021). Human Capital Constraints, Spatial Dependence, and Regionalization in Bolivia: A Spatial Clustering Approach. Economía.

Harry Aginta, Cani Miranti, Carlos Mendez (2021). Regional Economic Growth Convergence and Spatial Growth Spillovers at Times of COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia. In Resosudarmo B. et al. (Ed.), Regional Perspectives of Covid-19 in Indonesia.

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Felipe Santos, Anang Gunawan, Carlos Mendez (2021). Regional income disparities, distributional convergence, and spatial effects: Evidence from Indonesian regions 2010–2017. GeoJournal.

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Harry Aginta, Anang Gunawan, Carlos Mendez (2021). Regional income disparities and convergence clubs in Indonesia: New district-level evidence. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

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Carlos Mendez (2020). Convergence Clubs in Labor Productivity and its Proximate Sources: Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries. Springer.

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Carlos Mendez (2020). Promoting both Industrial Development and Regional Convergence: Towards a Regionally Inclusive Industrial Policy. In Otsubo S. and Otchia C. (Ed.), Designing Integrated Industrial Policies for Inclusive Development in Africa and Asia.

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Felipe Santos, Carlos Mendez (2020). Regional Convergence, Spatial Scale, and Spatial Dependence: Evidence from Homicides and Personal Injuries in Colombia. Regional Science Policy and Practice.

Carlos Mendez, Felipe Santos (2020). Regional Convergence and Spatial Dependence across Subnational Regions in ASEAN: Evidence from Satellite Nighttime Light Data. Regional Science Policy and Practice.

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Carlos Mendez, Mistuhiko Kataoka (2020). Disparities in Regional Productivity, Capital Accumulation, and Efficiency across Indonesia: A Club Convergence Approach. Review of Development Economics.

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Carlos Mendez (2020). Labor Productivity, Capital Accumulation, and Aggregate Efficiency Across Countries: New Evidence for an Old Debate. Forum of International Development Studies, 50(4).

Carlos Mendez (2020). Regional Efficiency Convergence and Efficiency Clusters: Evidence from the provinces of Indonesia 1990–2010. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 4(2).

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Carlos Mendez (2019). Lack of Global Convergence and the Formation of Multiple Welfare Clubs across Countries: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach. Economies, 7(3).

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Alvaro Dominguez, Carlos Mendez (2019). Industrial Productivity Divergence and Input-Output Network Structures: Evidence from Japan 1973–2012. Economies, 7(2).

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Carlos Mendez, Erick Gonzales (2019). A Comparison of TFP Estimates via Distribution Dynamics: Evidence from Light Manufacturing Firms in Brazil. Empirical Economics Letters, 18(3).

Carlos Mendez (2018). On the Distribution Dynamics of Human Development: Evidence from the Metropolitan Regions of Bolivia. Economics Bulletin, 38(4).

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Carlos Mendez (2018). Beta, Sigma and Distributional Convergence in Human Development? Evidence from the Metropolitan Regions of Bolivia. Latin American Journal of Economic Development, 30(Nov).

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Carlos Mendez (2018). Investment constraints and productivity cycles in Bolivia. Coyuntural Economics, 3(4).

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Carlos Mendez (2017). Heterogeneous Growth and Regional (Di)Convergence in Bolivia: A Distribution Dynamics Approach. Coyuntural Economics, 2(4).

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Carlos Mendez (2015). The World Productivity Distribution: Convergence and Divergence Patterns in the Postwar Era. Latin American Journal of Economic Development, 24(2).

Carlos Mendez (2015). Divergent and Unequal Development in Latin America: Causes and Policy Challenges. In Shigeru Otsubo (Ed.), Globalization and Development: In Search of a New Development Paradigm.

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Carlos Mendez (2015). Essays on Aggregate Productivity, Structural Change, and Misallocation. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing.

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Carlos Mendez (2015). On the Development Gap between Latin America and East Asia: Welfare, Efficiency, and Misallocation. Forum of International Development Studies, 45(3).