, focusing on the returns of EU structural and cohesion funds. Despite the widespread belief that the quality of government … analysis finds that both EU investments targeting regions and quality of government make a difference for regional economic …

European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions from 2009 to 2017. To estimate region-specific elasticities, we employ a latent class …. Moreover, we observe that changes in government quality and regional authority influence the ability of EU regions to leverage …

What Can We Learn from the "Integrated Approach" to Regional Development? The Impact of EU Infrastructure Investment -- 8 … EU Development Policies and the Socio-Economic Disadvantage of European Regions -- 9 Conclusions -- References …This book investigates the EU’s regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio …