This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … data provide much support for unconditional ß-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence conclusions …

regional development and within-regional equality for Central and Eastern Europe. …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … to identify the "knowledge regions" in Europe and to examine their main territorial features. To this aim we first build …

In the course of integrating Eastern Europe into the EU the accession countries will have a good opportunity to attract … industries from Western Europe and elsewhere and to catch up in per capita income. However, the catching up of the accession … experiences with integration in Europe, especially the Southern enlargement, and the economic performance of and within the …

This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities …

the European Union and international levels. Whereas Western Europe’s stable economic system has entered maturity, Eastern … Europe’s economic landscape is still constantly evolving and improving. From a geographical perspective, based on standard … Europe, the economic development and demographic distribution is not symmetrical, and there still is large potential for the …