This paper deals with the development of regional income disparities and convergence processes in the countries of the … the period 1995 - 2003. We use the two classical concepts of s – and ß-convergence. Furthermore, spatial econometric …

Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence … convergence. In both CEE and the ‘old’ EU15, regional convergence is strongly linked to the level of national development, non …-linearly. But while in the EU15 convergence speeds-up at intermediate/high levels of development, in CEE we find divergence at …

The aim of this paper is to present a further contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence … productivity at regional level. Presenting some empirical evidence of absolute convergence of productivity for each of the economic … empirical evidence of conditional convergence of productivity, for each of the economic sectors of the NUTS II of Portugal, from …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the consequences of spatial dependence on regional growth and the convergence … process. Based on a sample of 92 European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we show that the unconditional ?-convergence …

us distance, communications infrastructure or population in the spatial weights matrix associated to a ?-convergence …

This paper aims to determine whether there is any convergence at all between the economic activities of the Colombian … Cundinamarca and Antioquia examples of outstanding performance. This way, it is concluded that there is convergence between the … Colombian municipalities for the period analyzed, reaching an approximate convergence speed of 3.34% per annum. …

convergence speed of per capita income among municipios and test whether spatial externalities are linked to local income growth …. Conditionally on structural characteristics, we find evidence of convergence between municipios and of positive spatial dependence …

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial …