Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers – a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …

This paper analyses real income convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) to the most advanced … income convergence for economic welfare and the importance of convergence for economic and monetary integration with, and … within the European Union. The paper establishes stylised facts of convergence, analyses the drivers of economic growth and …

reform momentum to enable a sustainable convergence with the EU. …