Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter H.; Von Ehrlich, Maximilian - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2012
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states from two pools, the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund. The main goal of the associated transfers is to facilitate convergence of poor regions (in terms of per-capita income) to the EU average. We use data at...