30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, no full convergence of the economic performance and the living conditions … discusses possible reasons for the lack of convergence such as the legacy of the planned economy, economic policy mistakes made … erosion of market forces are discussed. This leads to economic policy recommendations to achieve full convergence of the …

structures and, based on this conceptualization, for assessing the potential convergence of airline business models over time is … of business models can be supported. This paper extends the mostly qualitative and anecdotal literature on convergence in … the airline industry and provides a platform for further empirical convergence studies. …

data on 38 countries from 1963-2000, there is clear convergence in the consumption of wine relative to beer between 1963 … and 2000. Convergence occurs even more quickly within groups of countries that have a higher degree of integration. A key … converging, several Latin American countries fail to converge. The patterns of convergence are consistent with dynamics of …

migration a force for both divergence and convergence, and characterizes where each set of forces dominates. Finally, it … explores the consequences for convergence of combining both migration selectivity and agglomeration effects arising from …

after a decade. These dynamics are qualitatively consistent with convergence to a buffer-stock target. Second, we analyze …

We study convergence and divergence dynamics in a sample of EMU countries by assembling an extensive dataset that …, increasing convergence with the core Euro countries. However, the debt crisis dramatically worsened citizens' perceptions of …