The speed of income convergence in Europe remains one of the hot topics in regional economics. Recently Bayesian Model …., Feldkircher, M. (2012), 'Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe', Journal of Applied …

In this paper an attempt is made to assess the hypothesis of re- gional club-convergence, using a spatial panel … analysis combined with B-Splines. In this context, a 'convergence-club' is conceived as a group of regions that in the long … states over the period 1929-2005, a pattern of club- convergence is detected. The 'cluster' of converging states is rather …