competition, investment and welfare crucially depend on the fine details of implementation. For instance, in the case of joint … ventures, it matters how investment costs are shared and how internal and external access prices are determined. In the case of … market developments ex-post and whether contracts are signed before or after the investment takes place. Generally, many of …

Additionality is one of the key principles driving the functioning of the EU Cohesion Policies (ECP). The present paper … studies how additionality affects the distributional effects of the ECP. Using the example of the firm-level investment … investment additionality and the level of competition importantly affect the distributional effects of the ECP. Imposing …

interventions reach their peak in the last years of ERDF programming period (2020-2022), when the absorption of investment funding …