Significant disparities still exist between regions of the European Union, even though substantial Cohesion investments … almost all studies are carried out at NUTS1&2 or a country level, even though significant disparities occur at NUTS3 level …. Filling the gap of previous contributions, the paper aims to investigate convergence outcomes of the CP at NUTS2&3 level and …

obtained. It is demonstrated that convergence is pronounced between regions that are far away from each other while there is no … convergence between neighbor regions. Third, it is shown how the conditional o-convergence approach can be extended to other …

literature, theories of convergence and divergence examine the reasons for diminishing or increasing the disparities between the …In the European Union, one of the primary goals of integration is the convergence of the regional income per capita … (and of other significant socio-economic indicators), and hence, how to generate a process of convergence. In the economic …