Since the 2008 global crisis the earlier promising trend of economic convergence has deteriorated in the European Union (EU). The speed of convergence has slowed down in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states, and convergence has in fact turned into divergence in the Mediterranean...

The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on various aspects of productivity, trade and development. The topics of the conference include: 1) the role of productivity growth vs. factor accumulation in convergence; 2) within and between sector reallocation; 3) relative...