This article offers a new approach in assessing the presence of regional convergence in income per capita and applies it to data for sixty-five regions of the European Union over the decade leading up to the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty. Within the framework of distributional...

This study aims to assess the Cost Efficiency (CE) of the Greek cooperative banks over the period 2000–2005. We first use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate the technical, allocative and cost efficiency for each bank in sample. Then, we use a bootstrapping censored (Tobit)...

This paper investigates the income convergence among Russian regions in the period 1998- 2006. It makes two major contributions to rather extensive literature on the regional con- vergence in Russia. First, it identifies spatial regimes using the exploratory spatial data analysis. Second, it...

In the light of the reaffirmed importance of agricultural convergence within the integration process, the paper provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of the enlargement from the EU-15 to the EU-27 on agricultural real b-convergence and, with reference to the EU-27, of its...

In this paper we examine the spatial and temporal distribution of per capita income across Europe. We base our analysis on a cluster methodology which allows for an endogenous selection of regional clusters using a multivariate test for stationarity where the number and composition of clusters...

BUDD L. (1997) Regional integration and convergence and the problems of fiscal and monetary systems: some lessons for Eastern Europe, Reg. Studies 31, 559-570. The Single European Market (SEM) and the possibility of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) present the constituent regions of Europe with...

Anyadike-Danes M. (2004) The real north-south divide? Regional gradients in UK male non-employment, Reg. Studies 38, 85-95. Unemployment rates across the UK's regions are now more similar than they have been for many years. But has the longstanding north-south gap in labour market performance...

Abstract With the 2004 enlargement to the East, the EU regional growth process can no longer be seen in the frame of the traditional core–periphery pattern. This is why this article proposes an innovative methodology to endogenously detect convergence clubs while accounting for spatial...

Abstract Regional convergence of German labour markets represents a politically important question. Different studies have examined convergence processes in Germany. We derive equations to estimate the speed of convergence on the basis of an extended Solow model. The technique of geographically...