is particularly relevant for policymakers since it indicates a trade-off between fostering income convergence at the …

income convergence across 255 NUTS-2 European regions for the period 1995-2005. We show that the choice of a spatial weight … attached to the model covariates. We also show that estimates of the speed of income convergence across European regions depend … of model uncertainty, the posterior distribution of the speed of convergence parameter appears bimodal, with a large …

income convergence across 255 NUTS-2 European regions for the period from 1995 to 2005. We show that the choice of a spatial … parameters attached to the model covariates. We also show that estimates of the speed of income convergence across European … account this dimension of model uncertainty, the posterior distribution of the speed of convergence parameter has a large …

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 …

experienced in aggregate productivity are due, almost entirely, to the sectors productivity growth effect; c) there is a beta-convergence … process at the aggregate and sectoral levels; d) the same occurs for sigma-convergence, apart from the industrial sector; e …) the accounting decomposition of the aggregate productivity convergence process reveals the sectoral productivity growth …