By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … advancements and evaluation reports often do not transparently describe their methodological limitations. As the EU body … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation …

evaluations of EU Cohesion Policies by its Member States (MS). We use large language models quantify the findings of about 2 … analysis suggests that the market of evaluations is rather oligopolistic within MS, that it is very fragmented across the EU … (evidence-based policy). We conclude by discussing reform options to make the evaluations of EU Cohesion Policies more unbiased …

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … Becker-Ehrlich model of crime supply. We analyse three different channels from drug abuse to crime: system-related, economic …