adequate design. I find that a case for regional policy cannot be denied, but that the EU largely overstates the need for such … a policy at EU level, and should abstain from direct structural interventions into regional economies. …

In 2015, the EU regional / cohesion policy has passed its 40th anniversary. During this time, it has undergone various …

member states become the main recipients of EU funding, Eastern Europe has also changed from once being the most integration …-friendly region to displaying the most integration-hostile attitudes in the EU. Motivated by this empirical puzzle, we revisit the … relationship between structural 'convergence' funding and Euroscepticism and ask where - if at all - is the EU's convergence …

We assess the macroeconomic impact of the EU cohesion policy investments deployed during the 2014-2020 programming … the NUTS 2 regions of the EU within a 20-year time frame. The results suggest that the impact of the policy is sizeable …, especially in the less developed regions of the EU. Accordingly, regional disparities are shown to decrease thanks to the policy …

The European cohesion policy is the EU's main investment policy and targets all regions and cities across the EU to … period, one third of the EU budget has been allocated to the projects under this policy. This report contains a macroeconomic …

We evaluate the macroeconomic impacts of the European Social Fund (ESF) across the EU at both the national and the …

Matrices for the year 2010. In our analysis we document the direct, indirect, and general equilibrium effects of the EU … regional policy at the regional, national, and EU level. In the short-run, our simulation exercise suggests a pronounced … variegate patters across EU regions. In the long-run, a more homogenous spatial distribution is detected. Moreover, we identify …