Recent papers show that the impact of Cohesion Policy is not uniform in space but larger, smaller or insignificant depending on the regions. These outcomes mostly depend on the characteristics of each territory (conditioning factors). This paper reviews them and investigates, through descriptive...

This book analyses the process of regionalisation and plots its future development. Regionalisation is a common feature of the changing territorial organisation of European states today. Regionalisation alone, however, cannot produce any of the benefits attributed to it without looking into the...

This chapter examines the distributional effects of place-based policies in the EU. In a first step, it characterizes existing income inequalities in the EU and distinguishes between their interregional and intraregional dimensions. A key result is that inequalities within European regions make...

Knowledge as a Driver of Technological Change and Regional Growth -- Innovative, Technological, and Growth Capacities of the EU Regions -- Determinants of RISs' Efficiency of the EU Regions -- The Role of Intra-, Inter- and Extra-Regional Sources of Knowledge Spillovers in the EU Regions....

Philipp Mohl evaluates the macroeconomic effects of EU Cohesion Policy with the help of empirical methods. His findings indicate that in particular the part of EU Cohesion Policy which is spent for the poorest regions (the so-called Objective 1 funding) has a positive and statistically...

1 Introduction -- Part I: Theory of Economic Growth -- 2 Neoclassical Growth Theory and Standard Models -- 3 Growth Models with Spatial Externalities -- 4 Convergence: Theory and Evidence -- Part II: A Model of Regional Growth -- 5 Remarks on Regional Growth -- 6 Structure of the Model -- 7...