This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … shown that, although this effect did slow down convergence, its magnitude was too small to account for the discrepancy …

EMU increases with convergence of structural and fiscal policies, small money holdings, a conservative European Central …

fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership …

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 …

and the Cohesion Fund. The main goal of the associated transfers is to facilitate convergence of poor regions (in terms of … target regions would lead to higher aggregate growth in the EU and could generate even faster convergence than the current …