This article analyzes the European periphery's economic development and its experience with EU regional programmes in the light of recent discussions on EU regional policy after 2000. After EU regional policy support increased in 1989, many regions advanced considerably in development, but...

This article analyzes the European periphery's economic development and its experience with EU regional programmes in the light of recent discussions on EU regional policy after 2000. After EU regional policy support increased in 1989, many regions advanced considerably in development, but...

The article provides an assessment of the regional convergence process between the Western European regions since the 1950s. Two sets of issues are addressed: (a) Is there sufficient evidence of regional convergence? If so, has the speed of convergence changed over time and is this speed...

The article provides an assessment of the regional convergence process between the Western European regions since the 1950s. Two sets of issues are addressed: (a) Is there sufficient evidence of regional convergence? If so, has the speed of convergence changed over time and is this speed...

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So far there is no direct estimator available for dynamic panels with strong spatial dependencies. We propose a two-step procedure, which involves first spatial filtering of the...