-run relationships by allowing for causality and convergence, are employed. In three essays, the proposed procedures are applied to food …

issue that arose in Europe in the late 1990s: the importance of financial structure for the convergence of monetary … importance of financial structure and its impact on the convergence of the effects of monetary policy. We find convergence in … convergence of monetary transmission in Europe. …

We find very fast convergence in productivity for the 99 3-digit European industries over the 1985-1998 period …. According to our estimates half of any productivity gap is closed on average in 10 years. The speed of convergence is much … higher than obtained previously in the literature. Convergence in industrial structure is, however, much slower than …

This is pioneering research in that it makes a comparison of the process of convergence of long-run profits in the … impact of the crisis on this process. The results obtained by employing the convergence model, known as the Partial …

management (HRM) has already been discussed back in the 1990s, pitching industry-level convergence arguments against diversity … debate to eventually treat the argument of convergence on strike as a set of hypotheses to be tested for the time after 1995 … for the latest convergence on strike (2000s) is therefore considered the next frontier with evidence suggesting an overall …

We find very fast convergence in productivity for the 99 3-digit European industries over the 1985-1998 period …. According to our estimates half of any productivity gap is closed on average in 10 years. The speed of convergence is much … higher than obtained previously in the literature. Convergence in industrial structure is, however, much slower than …

performance to indicators of cost, regulation and investment into future growth. The convergence process is different in speed …Economic performance in developed economies diverged in the nineties, with some countries enjoying high growth in … output and accelerating growth in productivity. Ireland excelled in many respects and some Nordic European countries …