We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous … studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely … question the focus of the traditional literature on average (beta-)convergence and suggest substantial non-linearities in …

The spatial patterns of changes in economic diversion and convergence have become more blurred in the last decades … traditional way to analyze convergence and disparities based on consolidated national or geographical based groups of regions. The … analyzed. Section 2 provides a survey of regional growth performance with special attention on divergence and convergence based …

have seen a spate of studies taking into account the spatial aspect of data in the analysis of convergence from an … paper aims to understand the spatial discontinuities at the origin of an uneven process of integration and convergence in … the EU with the two last enlargements. The study shows that there are local phenomena of both marked convergence, or …

regions, we find evidence for conditional convergence with speed around two percent. The convergence process between countries … is dominated by the catching up process of regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), whereas convergence within …