Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and increase its resilience, inter alia, by speeding up economic convergence. The impact of … transfers in real and business cycle convergence at a regional level. The paper distinguishes between net fiscal transfers - a … provides evidence that net fiscal transfers have contributed to income redistribution across regions and to faster convergence …

The chapter intends to assess income convergence among the 11 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries that joined …, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia (EU11). Convergence in these countries is analyzed in relation to the old EU members (EU15 …

integration, convergence in the European retail payments market is measured during the period 1995-2011 for the most used retail … estimating convergence are used: sigma convergence and beta convergence. There is some evidence of convergence for all payment … instruments has declined over time in Europe. The pace of convergence has picked up since the introduction of the single currency …

Euro area countries exhibited modest convergence prior to the financial crisis and diverged thereafter. Such divergence … countries. This might then explain in part the modest convergence and then divergence of euro area countries. …