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 …

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 …

EU income convergence, a declared objective of EU policy, supported business cycle synchronization. …

members have diverged since the Eurozone was created, in contrast to earlier trends which had seen rapid convergence in living … disparities among the 12 Western European member countries. In fact, incomes per capita between Southern and Northern Eurozone … Eastern European countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia) which joined the Eurozone between 2007 and 2015 …

The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …