Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …

convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …

promoting convergence and accumulation among the existing agreements. …

peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution, not simple patterns of convergence or divergence. The theo- retical problems …

hindered convergence among the countries of the Eurozone. On the one hand, there is wide agreement on the fact that asymmetric … support for convergence is fading away after the EMU was initiated in 1999. A process of divergence in per capita GDP is … underway, in contrast with the substantial progress that has taken place during the nineties. Regional convergence is also …

, convergence, and the political economy of corporate governance codes. …