This paper analyses the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions …

The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European … assumptions, this paper applies the method of generalized propensity score (GPS) to a sample of 122 NUTS-1 and NUTS-2 EU-15 …

The impact of EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated with regard to its growth effects. We extend the perspective … by investigating the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on public investments and budget deficits in order to learn more about … the channels through which this policy field works. Using a dataset of 27 EU countries for the time period 1982-2006, we …

. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of … and provide some remarks for future research. -- Economic integration ; regional growth ; EU Cohesion Policy ; panel data …

Since January 1st the European Union has launched an EU-internal emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) for emission …-intensive installations as the central pillar to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The EU ETS may be linked at some time to a Kyoto emissions … into account potential linkages between the Kyoto emissions market and the EU ETS. We find that Russia may have incentives …

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states especially in Germany are subject to a diverse … emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and quantitative terms within a partial equilibrium framework for the EU …. It turns out that those firms within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) which at the same time are subject to …

base case we find that the EU implementation of the Kyoto Protocol implies low overall costs and a relatively even cost … marginally but changes the cost distribution significantly, holding total EU emissions constant. …

magnitude and distribution of abatement costs across EU countries vis-à-vis a comprehensive EU emission trading regime. We find … permit trade enhances the secondary terms-of-trade benefits to EU member countries with low marginal abatement costs at the … expense of the other EU member states. …

This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A … emissions regulation. An empirical analysis of the first trading phase of the EU ETS corroborates our theoretical prediction for … lobbying power stand-alone or threats of potential worker layoffs did not exert a significant influence on the EU ETS …