detailed spatial level for the EU are not readily available. In this paper we address this issue by estimating a novel dataset … of road freight transport costs for goods for the EU regions at the NUTS 2 level. In the spirit of the generalized …

Europe in the context of the EU cohesion policy programme. Our analysis suggests that the decrease in transportation costs …

, 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 …

European Union (EU) regions, differentiating between imports from regions belonging to the same country (national or … interregional trade) and regions belonging to other EU countries (international trade within the EU). We use a nested CES utility … regression. As the EU is a single market, the usual approach followed in the international trade literature that relies on …

EU regions to tackle societal challenges. …