. Non-convergence traps are more likely when policies and institutions are endogenized, enabling beneficiaries of existing …

examines what is the best way for candidate countries to fuel real convergence. The experience from earlier EU enlargements and … should be terminated as soon as possible. Second, labour and capital mobility are good for growth and economic convergence …

We study the issue of income convergence across countries and regions with a Bayesian model which allows us to use … information in an efficient and flexible way. We argue that the very slow convergence rates to a common level of per-capita income … introduces in the results. Our approach permits the estimation of different convergence rates to different steady states for each …