Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU) since the …. The results raise the question of why construction prices in the EU appear to be resistant to convergence even in the … average construction costs for two building types in two groups of EU countries, one using the euro, the other using their …

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also … support output convergence and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature might be spurious. However …

The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysiswith the aim of reviewing … data regressions, a framework that is appliedto a sample of 80 regions of the EU-15 at NUTS-2 level over the time period … convergence inEurope that cannot be adequately captured by the non-spatial growth regression models thathave dominated the …