The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …

convergence. We apply three approaches to convergence – beta-convergence, sigma-convergence and quantile-convergence (q-convergence … check if countries of the given sample tend to form convergence clubs in the relevant years. The analysis is run for the …

the Europe 2020 Strategy. As provided in the Convergence Programme 2014-2020, this objective entails a series of steps … are calculated, using linear and quadratic functions, the Gross Domestic Product GDP trends, and, with the convergence …

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU … towards economic convergence on a national scale between 2000 and 2011, mainly caused by the rapid growth of the most lagging … countries. On a regional scale, however, the process of convergence was much slower and almost came to an end after the …