evidence of convergence among regions over the study period. By contrast, we detect a regional cluster in the core of Europe …

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 …

Previous studies on regional convergence in the US have employed varied methodologies and yielded different conclusions …. Some authors report evidence that convergence has grown stronger in recent decades, while others find recent years have … seen an end to convergence. We test for convergence with a method that allows for structural change. We find, first, that …