Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Nickel, Christiane; … - 2009
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The 19 EU countries of this study are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece … shorter periods. For instance, Sala-i-Martin (1996) finds evidence of σ-
convergence in several EU countries in a long … 13 EU countries during the
period 1977-2003, and uses social transfers as an explanatory fiscal variable. Somewhat …