components of per capita GDP as regressors. When testing variants of the paradox that apply to groups of countries, we find a … Poland. As the Western and Northern European countries have a high per capita GDP as compared to that of Southern and Eastern … between per capita GDP and life satisfaction over time which is positive for poorer countries, but flat (or negative) for …

assess the effectiveness of the convergence criteria by examining location specific advantages that guide multinational …. Specifically, our results suggest that economic convergence ensured by belonging to the common currency area helps double FDI flows …

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also …-2000. Overall, the results do not support output convergence, and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature …

ranges between 20.1 per cent and 36.8 per cent of the EU GDP, depending on the applied methodology. The national values of …

We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great …