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 …

integration, convergence in the European retail payments market is measured during the period 1995-2011 for the most used retail … estimating convergence are used: sigma convergence and beta convergence. There is some evidence of convergence for all payment … instruments has declined over time in Europe. The pace of convergence has picked up since the introduction of the single currency …

integration, convergence in the European retail payments market is measured during the period 1995-2011 for the most used retail … estimating convergence are used: sigma convergence and beta convergence. There is some evidence of convergence for all payment … instruments has declined over time in Europe. The pace of convergence has picked up since the introduction of the single currency …

-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these countries since 1950. We … of compulsory schooling. Then we test whether convergence still holds when one controls for the major three alternative … constraint of governments. Conditional convergence does hold and we find that openness, membership of the European Union …

This paper examines the per capita income convergence process among 23 Argentinian provinces over the period 1983 … conditional convergence process between Argentinian provinces and a positive and significant impact of agglomeration variables on … underestimates the speed of convergence specifically for provinces which are distant from Buenos Aires. Moreover, we improve …

for arbitrary aggregation functions. We provide a general analysis of convergence in the aggregation model and find all …

de concurrence ou de convergence entre les régions voisines et enfin la question des discontinuités transfrontalières. …