China's Industrial Transfer Policy (ITP) is a novel place-based development policy of unprecedented scale. The policy …

Depopulation, especially, but not only, rural, has become a major concern across many countries. As one type of place-based …

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes … background, the chapter then reviews the economic literature on the effectiveness and distributional effects of place-based … policies in general and EU regional policy in particular. The evidence from this literature suggests that while place-based …

about the effectiveness and efficiency of place-based transfers in Europe. While EU regional policy has not completely …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of a prominent place-based policy - Special Economic Zones (SEZs …

We study the wage and employment effects of a German place-based policy using a research design that exploits … conditionally exogenous EU-wide rules governing the program parameters at the regional level. The place-based program subsidi- zes … incidence of the place-based program on different groups of individuals. We find that the program helps establishments create …

Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of … locale, this book explores the potential contribution of place-based initiative to more balanced and equitable socio … place-based perspectives from a number of vantage points, including the potential of achieving greater effectiveness in EU …

We study the wage and employment effects of a German place-based policy using a research design that exploits … conditionally exogenous EU-wide rules governing the program parameters at the regional level. The place-based program subsidi- zes … incidence of the place-based program on different groups of individuals. We find that the program helps establishments create …