This paper analyses the economic effects of a reallocation of Cohesion Policy expenditures across EU countries. We … evaluate a shift from stronger (i.e. older) Member States to less-developed EU economies (i.e. CEE countries) and vice versa …. On top of that, we also assess the effects of a general reduction in the Cohesion Policy budget. For evaluation, we …

This paper analyses the effects of the EU Cohesion Policy (CP) on the economic growth of 276 European NUTS-2 regions … variables) and a structural component, we estimate the impact of CP funding on the growth of GDP per capita across EU regions … promising method for impact evaluation, also allowing for the inclusion of indirect causal paths and feedback loops to depict …

to projects carried out in various regions in the context of EU cohesion policy. We found that the best …