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 investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …

, 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 …

analyses. This is the reason why convergence represents a crucial issue of intense research since the early 1990s. Although … European studies is to examine not only chronologically the process of convergence, but also spatially. This is because spatial … to extend the investigation of convergence across the EU27 regions during 2000-2010 by taking into account the spatial …

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …