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 …

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 …

EU Member States that exhibit co-movement in their growth dynamics, over the period 1980-2018. We then use the observed … of the EU. In contrast, bottom regions with low market dynamism and poor economic development, do not converge to each … other, and collectively lag significantly behind top European regions. Finally, we find evidence of EU Cohesion Fund …