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 …

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 …

Euro area countries exhibited modest convergence prior to the financial crisis and diverged thereafter. Such divergence … countries. This might then explain in part the modest convergence and then divergence of euro area countries. …

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. …