, 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 …