Wachstumsregionen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Mit Hilfe der Clusteranalyse weisen wir nach, dass sich in Wachstumsregionen …

This paper assesses whether the economy of East Germany is catching up with the West German region in terms of welfare … studies of convergence between regions of reunified Germany, our approach is purely based upon the time series dimension and … is thus directly focused on the catching up process in East Germany as a region. Our testing setup includes standard ADF …