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 …

. We assess the role of these external effects in explaining growth and economic convergence. We present a simple growth …

, conditions of convergence of interregional per-capita income, the long-run equilibrium regional shares of factors and of income …, and the convergence speed. The results are further generalised by explicitly introducing interregional distances. …

Main trends of per capita income convergence in Portugal and the European Union are surveyed. An explanation is given … to the fact that in the last two decades countries have converged, while no visible convergence has taken place among the … distribution of the stock of existing firms in the European Union is fixed, it is assumed that the degree of convergence follows …

services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …