Henley A. (2005) On regional growth convergence in Great Britain, Regional Studies 39 , 1245-1260. This paper examines … recent sub-regional output data for Great Britain to identify possible economic convergence. It concludes that sub …-regional data are subject to substantial spatial autocorrelation. Conventional estimates of 'beta' convergence are subject to …

This paper analyzes the time stability of the GDP beta convergence in two subsamples: EU27 countries during 1993 … compared with the widely cited 2% rate of convergence. (2) The pure mechanism of conditional convergence of the countries under … study was rather constant over time: there were periods of more rapid or slower convergence but the differences were not as …