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

Bottom-up processes of policy convergence are increasingly discussed as a substitute for the absence of supranational …-up convergence? In order to answer this question, we first construct country-specific R&D-based knowledge stocks, and then … Member States over the time period 1990-2012 is employed to test for the presence of conditional â-convergence using a bias …

. We analyse the convergence of interest rates in four major EMU countries from 1999 to 2007. We suggest to test the … convergence of the interest rates with the full term structure of interest rates with both univariate and multivariate inference …

We compare the convergence with German monetary policy of the Balkan and Mediterranean country candidates for EU …

by the optimum currency areas (OCA) framework. To some extent, the findings could signify if real convergence has been …This study inspects if there is greater convergence with Germany amongst the Eurozone founding members and if their … conditions across the states have improved and converged after unification. In some convergence aspects, findings suggest …