in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs …

the link financial development - convergence/divergence to the advanced countries' growth. As predicted by literature, the … confirmed. We support only partially the role that the financial development could play in the acceleration of the convergence …

-country regression displays income convergence. However, their assumption that this derives from an augmented Solow model requires …

This paper uses the notions of convergence in ratio and of convergence in difference to investigate price convergence … strong convergence of prices in the poultry markets but not in the egg markets. The latter appear to be fragmented into a … number of price convergence clubs. …

Regional convergence has become a heated topic in recent decades. Most papers studying this question define regions … regions over the period 1995 to 2006. The results describe a process of income convergence among these regions. …

The aim of this paper is to test the stochastic convergence in real per capita GDP for 15 European countries using non … analysis. Our results offer little support to the stochastic convergence hypothesis for the whole period, while suggest the … presence of convergence in the first sub-period. …

estimation procedures our results support the long-run conditional convergence hypothesis and shows a positive and statistically …

implications in terms of growth and convergence. Using a large set of innovation variables, we estimate a growth model à la Barro … the estimation of a convergence model, which shows that differences in innovation between MENA countries explain … differences in the convergence process of these countries toward EU GDP per capita. These results have important policy …