Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter H.; Von Ehrlich, Maximilian - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2012
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states from two pools, the Structural Funds … per-capita income) to the EU average. We use data at the NUTS3 level from the last two EU budgetary periods (1994-99 and …, overall, EU transfers enable faster growth in the recipient regions as intended, but we estimate that in 36% of the recipient …