Income convergence and economic integration: Evidence from European Union

Economic crisis and health inequalities: evidence from the European Union

Background: The recent economic crisis has been a major shock not only to the economic sector, but also to the rest of society. Our main objective in this paper is to show the impact of the economic crisis on convergence, i.e. the reduction or equalising of disparities, among the EU-27 countries in terms of health. The aim is to observe whether the economic crisis (from 2008 onwards) has in fac...

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

Exchange Rate Policy and Economic Convergence in the European Union

This paper tests for long-run macroeconomic convergence among European Union countries according to the various exchange rate regimes that have prevailed over the last forty years. Applying a recently developed test to monthly index of industrial production data, output convergence is confirmed or rejected depending on whether or not the first largest principal component based on benchmark devi...

Economic Convergence: an Analysis of Regions of the European Union

Economic Integration and Income Convergence: Not Such a Strong Link?

We would expect that the process of globalization between 1870 and 1914 and subsequent disintegration of the world economy during the interwar period would have led first to income convergence and then to income divergence between the participating countries. But in fact we find stronger evidence for income convergence during the interwar period than during the first globalization. Similarly, t...