and convergence of the EU countries from 1969 to 1998. The empirical analysis is based on a panel data model, which … growth, and to calculate their partial contributions to β- and σ-convergence of labour productivities within the EU. The …

reasons why adaptive learning may or may not lead to stability and convergence to self-fulfilling expectations in large …

placing a transition country on a development path that guarantees convergence to EU employment structures. …

(EMU), depending on the individual state of convergence of the accession candidates. As a political rather than an economic … decision on EMU enlargement is not beyond imagination, we argue that institutional convergence, in particular central bank … convergence, as it indicates an appropriate policy assignment and thereby fosters real and nominal convergence. The paper starts …