the successful convergence process of those countries, not least thanks to their integration into European and global …; promotion of regional cooperation in areas such as withholding tax, convergence of rules on accounting and stock exchanges in … activities; education and training programs for sectors where wage convergence has made most progress, including promotion of …

Bottom-up processes of policy convergence are increasingly discussed as a substitute for the absence of supranational …-up convergence? In order to answer this question, we first construct country-specific R&D-based knowledge stocks, and then … Member States over the time period 1990-2012 is employed to test for the presence of conditional â-convergence using a bias …

This paper analyses the speed and patterns of economic convergence in the new EU Member States of Central and Eastern … paper provides stylised facts on growth and convergence in Europe, and explores various convergence measures proposed in the … growth literature. It employs several analytical approaches in order to reveal convergence speed and patterns univariate …

concentrates on the convergence of regional incomes and the effects on the spatial distribution of the income per head, especially …