and the Cohesion Fund. The main goal of the associated transfers is to facilitate convergence of poor regions (in terms of … target regions would lead to higher aggregate growth in the EU and could generate even faster convergence than the current …

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity … competitive environment, eventually facilitating economic convergence. JEL Classification: C33, O47, J24, L60, L80 …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …