Bajo-Rubio O. and Diaz-Roldan C. (2005) Optimal endowments of public capital: an empirical analysis for the Spanish regions, Regional Studies 39 , 297-304. Regional infrastructure policies, through increased public investment, are widely used to promote the development of poorer regions in...

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...

This paper analyzes the time stability of the GDP beta convergence in two subsamples: EU27 countries during 1993–2010 and EU15 during 1972–2010. Additionally, the article checks for the strength and stability of influence of particular economic growth factors. In order to address the problem...