Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …

global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …

peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution, not simple patterns of convergence or divergence. The theo- retical problems …

hindered convergence among the countries of the Eurozone. On the one hand, there is wide agreement on the fact that asymmetric … support for convergence is fading away after the EMU was initiated in 1999. A process of divergence in per capita GDP is … underway, in contrast with the substantial progress that has taken place during the nineties. Regional convergence is also …

, convergence, and the political economy of corporate governance codes. …

studies have investigated such convergence dynamics for public environmental policies, their results have been based …