Unlike the single European market and the single currency, EU cohesion policy – although the subject of major reforms at the end of the 1980s - has never been ex-posed to as rigorous investigation and research about its objectives and impact evaluation as the other two policy initiatives. As a...

About one third of total EU budgetary resources are spent on implementing cohesion policy. Therefore, it is understandable that the European Commission and especially donor states (acting for the taxpayers) need to be reassured that their contributions are spent wisely and are being used...

An ex-ante impact analysis of EC Cohesion Policy investment programmes for the period 2007-2013 was recently carried out on behalf of the European Commission (DG Regional Policy) using three different economic models: the QUEST II model of DG-ECFIN, the ECOMOD model of EcoMod Network/Free...

In this paper we describe an integrated approach for assessing the general economic effectiveness, efficiency and impact of public policy actions for large investment programs of the kind implemented over the past fifteen years in EU-aided Structural Fund programmes. Far from being rigid, our...

Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert den Einfluss der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur“ (GRW) auf das Produktivitätswachstum von 225 deutschen Arbeitsmarktregionen im Zeitraum 1994 bis 2006. Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung ist eine...

In diesem Beitrag wird die räumliche Konzentration der Wirtschaftszweige in Deutschland im Jahr 1998 untersucht. Unsere Untersuchung schließt im Unterschied zu allen bisherigen Analysen neben den Wirtschaftszweigen des Produzierenden Gewerbes sowohl Branchen des landwirtschaftlichen Bereichs...