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We investigate whether the European Union can be considered as a convergence machine
after the 2008/2009 financial crisis. To do so, we econometrically test the relationship …

Progress in regional convergence in the EU has been uneven over the last two decades.
While Central and Eastern Europe has been catching up, Southern Europe has often lost …

The last decade, the European economy and society have faced several crises and new
challenges such as a large inflow of asylum-seekers in 2015 due to the war in Syria and …

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented global public health crisis,
which led to a drastic decline in economic activity and sharp rises in government deficits and …

Regional inequality is low in Sweden compared to most other OECD countries, but has been
rising over the past decades, fuelling discontent in parts of the country, whose inhabitants …

The aim of this paper is to apply the concept of marginal vertical income convergence to
analyze the influence of the two last economic downturns (2007 and 2020) on the …

We investigate the hypothesis of regional convergence in the per-capita GDP in 242
European regions (NUTS2) during the 2000–2021 period. The literature shows mixed …

We exploit the mixture of policy goals and instruments of the Spanish regional funding
system (RFS) to test whether equalisation transfers impact regional convergence. Using …

The main objective of this research is to estimate the degree of real convergence of the
countries that joined the European Union between 2004–2013 as an essential precondition …