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 …

Convergence of EU regions is an often examined research question. However, there are no studies available which include … in their analysis the New Member States from the former Eastern Bloc. We estimate several models of absolute convergence … and of conditional convergence taking into account the different initial conditions of the regions from each country …

In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …

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 …

remains inconclusive about speed of convergence across regions, if not its existence. This paper provides a new look on … convergence in the EU while focusing on development at regional level after the Great Recession. It uses the log t convergence … test by Phillips and Sul (2007) to analyze the convergence in level of income among the European regions. Rather than …