Significant disparities still exist between regions of the European Union, even though substantial Cohesion investments … almost all studies are carried out at NUTS1&2 or a country level, even though significant disparities occur at NUTS3 level …. Filling the gap of previous contributions, the paper aims to investigate convergence outcomes of the CP at NUTS2&3 level and …

The paper identifies some major disparities and quantifies some discrepancies and gaps, as well as specific trends of … context of their real convergence to the EU average level (EU-28 and EU-16). A few final remarks identify some paradoxes of …

This paper looks at the hypothesis of conditional convergence of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for a set of … eighteen Latin American countries establishing a positive link with the growth rate of those economies. To that purpose, β-convergence …, σ-convergence and γ-convergence analyses are conducted. Furthermore, with the aim of identifying spatial heterogeneity …

income per capita and labor productivity. The remaining of the paper estimates econometric models of growth convergence for …, by enlarging the model to take account of the long run determinants of spatial growth convergence. Empirical results …

Using sigma and beta convergence methods, this study tests economic convergence in Turkish NUTS-2 regions between 2004 …-2011. The findings of sigma convergence analysis show that the interregional income gap decreases during economic recession … periods and increases during economic expansion periods. The beta convergence results obtained by the cross-sectional and …