What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human … exploiting a database covering European regions from 1995 to 2015, which includes regional total factor productivity (TFP …

the relative importance of national, regional and spatial factors for explaining variations of productivity. Our analysis … shows that initial economic conditions or agglomeration and centrality are indeed relevant for differences in productivity … levels. What is far more important, however, is which country a region belongs to. Productivity differences in the European …

has focused on the missing democratic dimension behind recent governance reforms, and the lack of compensating output …, governance needs to accommodate the diversity of expectations and situations of euro countries. The paper then assesses the way … governance works in practice by analysing the interaction between the EU and national democracies on three similar cases: the …

, overlooked dimension, namely the feasibility, or "implementability", of governance reforms. Like national technocracies, the EU … economic governance: rule-based wage coordination, contractual arrangements for reforms, and a stabilisation fund for the Euro … reasoned approach to reforming EU governance. Beyond the predictable clash of economic rationales and political hurdles, reform …

The research paper assesses the opportunities and challenges raised by the post-crisis EU governance system with regard … and environmental responsibility. It begins with questioning the term of "governance" and with a hint at the "multi …-level governance" literature available in EU studies. This section suggests that the EU's nature is one of multiple and innovative …

analyses the increasing contractual approach to EU governance, and argues that a stronger sense of reciprocity could arise from …

analyses the main features of the reformed governance framework and shows that the recent push towards integration does not …-based EU-27; the conflicting demands for more sovereignty and more democracy against a backgroung of deeper integration. …

indicators are employed to measure institutional development: first, the Worldwide Governance Indicators, and second, the product … product market and business regulation- not in the area of governance. In fact, the authors show evidence for β-divergence in …