The aim of the article is to verify the convergence process of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (CEE10) countries … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article …10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration …

that of higher-income economies since the start of monetary union. The significant real convergence performance of some of … view" and reviewing the evidence since the 1960s, this paper shows that certain member countries began to face a "non-convergence … trap" long before the euro years. We also provide stylised facts on: (i) the central role of total factor productivity in …

This paper investigates economic convergence in real income per capita between 27 European Union countries. We employ a … convergence in the EU, however, we identify subgroups that converge to different steady states using an iterative testing … procedure. Regional linkages play a significant role in determining the formation of convergence clubs. The empirical evidence …

are found to be robust for alternative regression specifications including doubly robust estimation, varying sample …