Assessing regional convergence is an important issue both at the national and at the supranational level, such as the level of European regions. Regional convergence and productivity growth are also principles of the European regional policy. This paper studies regional productivity convergence...

Although European Single Market (ESM) has been widely perceived as a model for regional integration, there continues to be considerable debate about the impact of this integration on the EU regions. Studies in this field have mainly investigated the convergence-divergence issue, while the effect...

This paper investigates the impact in the short/medium term of M&As made by 14 Italian banks quoted on the stock exchange for the period 1999-2016. After dividing the banks into two groups by size and degree of internationalisation, we sought to ascertain whether different initial conditions...