A model for assessing Romania's real convergence, based upon distances and clusters methods

Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Miron, Dumitru ^a   Dima, Alina Mihaela ^a   Paun, Cristian ^a  

^a Faculty of International Business and Economics   (Romania)

Author keywords

Clusters; Distances; EMU; Real convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049118862     PISSN: 0424267X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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