terms of their convergence in selected macroeconomic fundamentals. The analysis uses monthly data on industrial output … natural economic integration among them so far. Certain levels of convergence occurred only for a limited number of countries …

This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … shown that, although this effect did slow down convergence, its magnitude was too small to account for the discrepancy …

This paper assesses convergence in output per head across regions in the European Community (EC), for the period 1975 …<196>90. We use three alternative methodologies to measure convergence, which yield consistent results. We observe that there are … strong differences in the pattern of convergence across sub-periods and across subsets of regions. If Southern Europe seemed …

fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership …

EMU increases with convergence of structural and fiscal policies, small money holdings, a conservative European Central …

and the Cohesion Fund. The main goal of the associated transfers is to facilitate convergence of poor regions (in terms of … target regions would lead to higher aggregate growth in the EU and could generate even faster convergence than the current …

convergence. Focusing on the late nineteenth century, a period both of globalization and convergence, it shows that trade had an … important force for convergence during this period, however. The analysis suggests that more attention should be paid to open … economy forces when discussing convergence. …

World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the … leaders, especially in real wages and living standards. Some, like Ireland, achieved convergence without industrialization … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …

Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or …