The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …

is convergence of the cluster patterns over time. A number of different clusters appear and these change over time as the … labour productivity. The paper concludes that in the last decade the convergence of countries sharing the euro has been … divergences from pre-existing integration. Country convergence needs to be understood as a dynamic and multivariate concept. This …

The cross-country convergence hypothesis is one of the central topics of long-run macroeconomics. This paper revisits … beta convergence is first documented. Next, the paper incorporates some recent developments from the unsupervised machine … learning literature to evaluate the existence of local convergence. In particular, the application of a distribution …

Economic integration and globalization are expected to promote economic growth and convergence. This article offers a … convergence literature aims to establish whether catching-up processes have been successful. This article verifies the existence … become fewer and larger. However, growth path divergences persist and suggest a cluster-based convergence. Integration …

impact of the euro on economic convergence. The DPS method ensures a forensic examination of the diverse variable patterns … that influence cluster memberships. As with previous research conclusions, there are multiple patterns of convergence and … nominal convergence. An example is the divergence of the experience of consumer inflation between 2016 and 2022. Nevertheless …

EU average, despite being eligible for EU funding as a convergence region by cohesion policy. In the 2014 …-2020 programming period, there was a positive dynamic at the beginning, but from 2017 onwards convergence stopped, which indicates that … intermediate development regions with some industrial base but does not seem appropriate as a convergence driver for poorer regions. …