within a regional convergence model. It focuses on vertically connected industrial sectors, which can emerge parallel to … while taking regional convergence into consideration. In addition to the all-German process of convergence and the specific … opportunity to explain deficits within the process of East-West convergence. The relative absence of industrial clusters in East …

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU … towards economic convergence on a national scale between 2000 and 2011, mainly caused by the rapid growth of the most lagging … countries. On a regional scale, however, the process of convergence was much slower and almost came to an end after the …

activity. Yet little empirical work has assessed the regional convergence impacts of trade. Therefore this paper studies the … regional convergence from trade in Mexico after NAFTA. Unlike previous papers, working with municipal-level data allows to … observe more clearly the convergence patterns across space and to identify the effect of NAFTA, respectively. Result shows …

Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify … the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among … development. The convergence towards a narrower unimodal distribution of per capita income is convincing in this homogenous …

economic activities metropolitan regions can lead to excess growth, and contribute to a process of convergence between nations … location quotients and the change of LQ) are included. Within these groups we study the process of convergence by use of the … traditional measures of convergence. The findings are compared with traditional geographical convergence results, enabling an …