. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of … the various European regions. Investigating the impact of European Cohesion Policy on economic growth and convergence is a …

This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial error convergence model with groupwise heteroskedasticity is found … data provide much support for unconditional ß-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence conclusions …

-North convergence based on North-South technology diffusion through intermediate goods trade is guaranteed if the knowledge effect … dominates the productivity effect. Moreover, a larger Southern market expands the area of convergence and can prevent divergence … convergence is desirable for both, the South and the North. …