Since the birth of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), policies have been implemented in the Member States of the European Union (EU) to lead them towards economic convergence. This article analyses the convergence of the 174 regions that exist in the 17 euro-zone countries in the years from 1990...

In this paper we analyse the observed systematic differences in costs for teaching hospitals (TH henceforth) in Spain. Concern has been voiced regarding the existence of a bias in the financing of TH s has been raised once prospective budgets are in the arena for hospital finance, and claims for...