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

The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from … accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators are developed which measure convergence and … benefits from monetary integration. The more serious problem is a lack of convergence which could imply serious risks during …

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 …

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 …

Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and convergence of net equivalized income distributions among European Union … inequality-affecting (shape-in uenced) convergence of distributions. …

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 …

regional convergence, as every percentage point of net migration increased GDP per capita by roughly 0.01% and reduced …