More than one third of the European Union's total budget is spent on socalled Cohesion Policy via the structural funds. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of the various European regions. Investigating the impact...

Philipp Mohl evaluates the macroeconomic effects of EU Cohesion Policy with the help of empirical methods. His findings indicate that in particular the part of EU Cohesion Policy which is spent for the poorest regions (the so-called Objective 1 funding) has a positive and statistically...

The impact of EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated with regard to its growth effects. We extend the perspective by investigating the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on public investments and budget deficits in order to learn more about the channels through which this policy field works....

Abstract: Die Kohäsionspolitik wird wie alle anderen Ausgaben des EU-Haushalts zusammen mit der Einnahmeseite in die gegenwärtige umfassende Generalüberprüfung des EU-Finanzsystems einbezogen. Die Studie will zu dieser Überprüfung durch Behandlung einer doppelten und interdependenten...