@article{fifekov2016catchingup,
  title = {Catching-up Processes in Central European Countries},
  author = {Elena Fifeková and Andrea Vondrová},
  year = 2016,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JEERBE/2016/420774/},
  journal = {Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics},
  volume = (2016),
  pages = 13,
  doi = 10.5171/2016.420774,
  abstract = {This paper evaluates the progress of the countries of Central Europe in their convergence efforts with the original Member States of the European Union. It examines the impact of the integration of Central European countries into the EU on their growth and catching-up process. It evaluates the creation of conditions for narrowing the performance gap between the countries of Central Europe and the old Member States, the rate of catch-up process and factors that have the greatest impact on the real convergence of Central Europe to the EU-15 average. Attention is mainly paid to the assessment of the upward impact of the overall productivity of factors. There are also identified bottlenecks in the development process of the evaluated countries.   },
  keywords = {transformation process, catch-up effect, real convergence},
  note = Article ID: 420774
}