European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions from 2009 to 2017. To estimate region-specific elasticities, we employ a latent class …. Moreover, we observe that changes in government quality and regional authority influence the ability of EU regions to leverage …

EU Member States that exhibit co-movement in their growth dynamics, over the period 1980-2018. We then use the observed … of the EU. In contrast, bottom regions with low market dynamism and poor economic development, do not converge to each … other, and collectively lag significantly behind top European regions. Finally, we find evidence of EU Cohesion Fund …