This paper examines convergence of per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emission for a panel of 124 countries taking into … account the impact of the quality of government institutions. The analysis builds on both parametric and nonparametric panel … data techniques, and we examine the beta-convergence hypothesis in a neoclassical growth model setting with institutional …

conditions. We find evidence of conditional convergence among EU regions, with the quality of national institutions having a …This article focuses on convergence in terms of output per working-age person across regions in the European Union for … the period 1990-2001. Controlling for the quality of national institutions, we investigate whether the status of …

West Germany being admitted to the `convergence club'. The role of the Currency Reform, associated price liberalization and … convergence to US levels of productivity stopped. By contrast, Germany was able to maintain its share of world export markets … adaptation.A major theme of the paper is the role of economic institutions in growth and in the penultimate section, the links …

attitudes, using surveys from the Finnish Business and Policy Forum, and find that there has been a strong regional convergence … in terms of trust in political parties and in the EU. In particular, we find that the trust in these institutions has … analysis. On the other hand, we do not find a significant convergence with respect to the attitude towards immigration. …

The concept of club convergence has been widely used in empirical analysis to group countries in clubs with similar …, and how institutions are formed and since institutions determine the way scarce resources are used by their chosen … test convergence within each club. I find significant and positive convergence speed within each of the clubs, implying …