The Convergence Process and the Effects of the Economic Crisis in Central-Eastern Europe
Journal Title: Romanian Review of Regional Studies - Year 2013, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
The economic convergence and the effects of the economic crisis is a very popular research question. In this paper I propose to examine the convergence process in Central and Eastern Europe by testing the Williamson hypothesis form a multiscalar perspective: at national and at different regional levels as well. By using time series for the GDP per capita, I will try to answer three basic issues: firstly, the trends in convergence/divergence in Central and Eastern Europe, secondly, which convergence clubs have evolved in the analysed space, and, finally, the effects of the financial and economic crisis on the convergence process.
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DÓRA SZENDI
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