Regional convergence clubs in Europe: Identification and conditioning factors

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-31

  Bartkowska, Monika ^a   Riedl, Aleksandra ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Club convergence hypothesis; Conditioning factors; European regions; Log t test; Logit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355168997     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2011.01.013     Document Type: Article

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