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...

Economic and agricultural convergence across the EU regions has for a long time attractedthe attention of economists and more so in the recent decade following the EU enlargement.Empirical contributions have referred explicitly or implicitly to the Solow’s model ofeconomic growth testing...

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...