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Which is the Right Dose of EU Cohesion Policy for Economic Growth?

Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - 2009

The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European regions mainly relies on functional form assumptions. However, it is ex ante not clear which functional form is appropriate with regard to the relationship between structural funds...

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Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches

Mohl, Philipp; Hagen, Tobias - 2008

This paper analyses the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1/NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using structural...

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Total Costs and Budgetary Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change : An Assessment for the European Union

Osberghaus, Daniel - 2010

Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...

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How Does EU Cohesion Policy Work? Evaluating its Effects on Fiscal Outcome Variables

Mohl, Philipp - 2009

The impact of the EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated by analysing its growth effects. However, this perspective neglects that the EU support might affect other policy fields as well. There are at least two reasons why the impact on public investment should be of special interest. First...

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Econometric Evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy – A Survey

Mohl, Philipp - 2009

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Regional Income Convergence in the Enlarged Europe, 1995-2000 : A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Fischer, Manfred M.; Stirböck, Claudia - 2008

This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in … with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial error convergence model with groupwise heteroskedasticity is found … data provide much support for unconditional beta-convergence in Europe. The second is that the usual convergence …

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Sovereign Risk Premia : The Link between Fiscal Rules and Stability Culture

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2013

There is a growing empirical literature studying whether fiscal rules reduce borrowing costs. Nevertheless, it remains an open question whether these rules are effective genuinely or just because they mirror fiscal preferences of politicians and voters. In our analysis of European bond spreads,...

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European Monetary Union Reform Preferences of French and German Parliamentarians

Blesse, Sebastian - 2019

We analyze data from an author‐conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary Union reform preferences. We consider three potential drivers of preferences: nationality, ideology, and personal characteristics. For European Monetary Union policies like...

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Escape Routes from Sovereign Default Risk in the Euro Area

Semmler, Willi - 2015

convergence toward a good no-default equilibrium below the threshold and a default equilibrium above the threshold. However, in …

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