Giannini, Massimo; Martini, Barbara - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 103 (2024) 4, pp. 1-11
We investigate the hypothesis of regional convergence in the per-capita GDP in 242 European regions (NUTS2) during the … 2000-2021 period. The literature shows mixed results, from absolute convergence towards a joint long-run distribution to … multiple regimes (convergence club). Our results show a broad convergence to an unimodal distribution. Although the GDP …