across the EU regions mostly concentrate on convergence in average per capita incomes, offering little evidence on how … to fill this gap, focussing on whether there has been convergence of income inequality among EU regions, and on to what … extent regional initial conditions and the Cohesion Policy funds affect the convergence process. Cross-section and panel …

across the EU regions mostly concentrate on convergence in average per capita incomes, offering much less evidence on how … to fill this gap, focusing on whether there has been convergence of income distribution among EU regions, and on to what … extent regional initial conditions and the Cohesion Policy affect the convergence process. Crosssection and panel convergence …

The study is based on the critical observations that competitive market forces alone are not able to assure convergence … member countries. Our paper deals with the evolution of the EU cohesion funds, as well as with the results of convergence …. * Study within the CEEX Programme Project No. 220/2006 Economic Convergence and Role of Knowledge in Relation to the EU …

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 …

. Filling the gap of previous contributions, the paper aims to investigate convergence outcomes of the CP at NUTS2&3 level and …

policy and is supported by the EU funds via allocations for convergence - competitiveness and employment - European … States (NMS) of the EU are a major beneficiary of these allocations, especially with regard to the convergence objective … the main issue is when and with which rate a process of regional convergence will occur, both inside each country and …