The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysiswith the aim of reviewing the econometric approaches for testing spatial effects in convergenceprocess related to both cross sectional and panel data regressions, a framework that is appliedto a sample of...

In the light of the reaffirmed importance ofagricultural convergence within the integration process, thepaper provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of theenlargement from the EU-15 to the EU-27 on agricultural realb-convergence and, with reference to the EU-27, of itsrelationship...