An estimated baseline convergence model capturing the long-term effect of human capital and physical investment on … increase the speed of convergence of catching-up countries. Public investment is more beneficial in some areas than others …

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers – a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …