This study aims to analyze the impact of the development and stability of the financial sector
on economic growth on the basis of the quantitative methods that produce robust results …

In a seminal article, Hanushek and Woessmann explained economic growth as a function of
the quality of education. While they did not find evidence of the importance of years of …

Abstract The EU Cohesion Policy has progressively diversified the financed sectors, with
possible heterogeneous impacts on local growth. However, the literature is still largely …

Research on convergence deals with the question of whether regional disparities are
decreasing over time. Aiming to decompose EU disparities covering regions of all levels, this …

Forecasting house price has been of great interests for macroeconomists, policy makers and
investors in recent years. To improve the forecasting accuracy, this paper introduces a …

This paper discusses the evidence of economic convergence in the European Union during
the past several decades and consecutive EU enlargements. We cluster different member …

The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 to include Central and Eastern European
countries has revived the convergence debate. This study concentrates on the empirical …

This paper shows that CEE countries converge in manufacturing productivity to more
developed EU countries, while southern EU countries have failed to converge. Large …

This article aims to answer the question of whether a membership in the European Union
contributed to an accelerated economic growth of eleven Central and Eastern European …

In this study, a meta-regression analysis is performed of studies that have examined whether
military expenditures are affected by election cycles. Theoretically, the direction of these …