This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …

Abstract: Convergence may be considered a central issue of the current economic literature, and not only, concentrating … characterize especially the emerging economies. Testing convergence within economies may serve as a useful instrument for the … validation of the economic growth models. While convergence was considered a defining element of the neoclassical growth models …

Price and output level convergence between new member states and the existing EU necessarily implies inflation and … nominal criteria are suspended, the policy instruments required to achieve euro convergence are in the hands of the individual …

The convergence is an essential objective of the integration process of Romania in the European Union. Minimizing gaps …

once again the issue of convergence inside the European Union. The high growth rates experienced by CEEC during the last … decade created an optimistic view of rapid convergence towards Western Europe. But the crisis showed that the sources of … convergence in terms of GDP and the convergence in terms of innovation for the CEEC. Based on yearly Eurostat data for the period …

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3 …

accounting standards with the national ones, but also the convergence of international accounting and auditing standards with the … measures the degree of convergence of international auditing standards (ISA 530) and U.S. auditing standards (SAS 39 …

This paper offers a preliminary analysis regarding the convergence of European stock markets. The sample consists of …. The patterns analysed through this article are an important indication of expected convergence in EU stock markets. This … traded and its growth rate. These results could be a sign of absolute convergence. Further research in this area is needed to …

very specific. Indicators of convergence and catching-up seem to show a GAP between Romania and other European countries …, and even other CEEC. Indicators of convergence and catch-up are usually used to analyse the effectiveness of EU policies …