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The National Security Argument for Agricultural Protection

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

Agricultural support is often advocated as a means to national security. This is misguided. At current levels of consumption there is considerable scope for substitution away from food without catastrophic welfare losses, and even in the total absence of imports the United Kingdom could feed...

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Regional Policy Design: An Analysis of Relocation, Efficiency and Equity

Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Despite substantial regional expenditures at both national and community level, European regional policies do not appear to deliver. The evidence suggests that neither efficiency gains nor reduced regional inequalities are attained. If there is any positive impact at all, then it is at the most...

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European Regional Policies in Light of Recent Location Theories

Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Despite large regional policy expenditures, regional inequalities in Europe have not narrowed substantially over the last two decades, and by some measures have even widened. Income differences across states have fallen, but inequalities between regions within each state have risen. European...

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How do Firms Agglomerate? A Study of FDI in France

Crozet, Matthieu; Mayer, Thierry; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the determinants of location choice by foreign investors in France. A new sample of almost 4000 location choices over ten years and 92 administrative locations is used to measure two important issues: To what extent do foreign investors cluster spatially and are the...

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The Effect of Structural Fund Spending on the Spanish Regions: An Assessment of the 1994-99 Objective 1 CSF

de la Fuente, Angel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

growth in the average Objective 1 region, and 0.4 points to employment growth. Over the period 1994-2000, the Framework has …

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Personal Redistribution and the Regional Allocation of Public Investment

Caminal, Ramon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Should the geographic allocation of public investment aim at reducing regional inequalities or should it exclusively be concerned with the maximization of aggregate output? In this Paper I study the potential role of public investment in reducing personal welfare inequality, in combination with...

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Public investment and regional growth and convergence: Evidence from Greece

Psycharis, Yannis; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

in Greece. Using a new database of public expenditure per region for the period 1978-2007, it proposes a model which … public investment in each region. Finally, the impact of different types of public investment in Greece is mediated by …

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The causal effects of an industrial policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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Is the Allocation of Public Capital Across the Spanish Regions too Redistributive?

de la Fuente, Angel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper compares the observed distribution of the stock of infrastructures across the Spanish regions with the optimal allocation derived from a planning problem in which the observed degree of ex-post redistribution is taken as given. The results suggest that Spanish public investment policy...

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Regional Policy, Integration and the Location of Industry in a Multiregion Framework

Forslid, Rikard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

regional policy can easily be misdirected. The existing literature almost entirely focuses on two-region cases. This Paper … instead analytically analyses a three-region case with asymmetric regions. The introduction of a third region gives several … new insights. In particular the locational consequences for the region of intermediate size can generally not be inferred …

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