Irland ist das Land der europäischen Peripherie, dem der spektakulärste Aufholprozess gelungen ist. Allerdings hat es, laut Dr. Michael Dauderstädt, Leiter des Referats Internationale Politikanalyse der Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn, diesen Erfolg auf Kosten seiner europäischen Partner...

This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in 1995 to 2000 and, moreover, relaxes the assumption of a single steady-state growth path which appears to be out of tune with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial...

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU, the diverging development of highly developed metropolitan regions and lagging rural areas has become a growing challenge especially for the new member states in Central and...