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 …

(industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised … as follows. In the pre-2008 crisis period, no integration/convergence of any kind is found. By contrast, in the post … Telecommunication, both in a turn-around phase, and Gas & Oil and Technology, for which there is no panel convergence. Club convergence …

of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods … enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading economies. In contrast, reductions in transportation costs of non …-industrial goods contribute to a further divergence across countries …

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …

-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the … policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …. Club convergence in growth rates can be traced back to a country's openness and to a minimum required level of human …

. We show that this partial convergence in party platforms can be explained by international climate agreements …

approximately 71-80% of all countries face sigma-convergence. Finally, we study different major determinants of the level of ….e., the determinants of the convergence process. We find evidence for an N-shaped relationship between development and …