Since man first forged metal tools and started farming for his food, thus emerging from the
stone age, no event in human history has had a greater impact than the Industrial Revolution …

Tourism significantly increased in the EU-28 in recent years. In the present study, the 28
member states were analysed for the period between 2012 and 2018, depending on data …

Abstract Are EU Member States converging in terms of their innovative effort? To what extent
is the current economic downturn impairing the convergence across the European Union …

This article examines regional inequalities in Greece, on the basis of σ‐convergence and β‐
convergence analysis and shows that they were reduced in the 1970s and the 1980s …

Border regions have often been analyzed regarding cohesion and convergence. However,
their development in times of crisis is a relatively new field of interest. This study combines …

The paper examines the pattern of regional convergence and the determinants of regional
growth in Europe, providing a discussion of the issues that are of relevance to the theoretical …

We find rather strong evidence for the unconditional convergence among all the larger
countries comprising the overwhelming majority of the world population and producing the …

Purpose–A substantial number of researchers have investigated the global economic
dynamics of this time to disprove unconditional convergence and refute its very idea, stating …

The paper assesses on empirical grounds the level and the evolution of regional
inequalities in each European Union new member-state (EU NMS) and examines the …

This paper examines the effects of the 2008 financial crisis on economic growth and
convergence across European countries from 1973 to 2012. Employing cross-sectional and …