The cohesion policy of the European Union represents a significant part of its budget and delivers interventions across all regions of the EU. There is little consensus on its efficiency, and its links to fostering convergence on the regional level are uncertain. Nevertheless, regions were shown...

Where is the best place to live? Which area in the Czech Republic has the highest quality of life? There are localities where problems are concentrated. People usually decide where to live several times in their lifetime. They want a healthy, materially fulfilling life in a cultural, socially...

European Union funds flowing into budgets of public sector organisations of its member states should be additional to their nationally funded expenditures. To investigate this additionality principle systematically, we develop a new empirical method. Our main hypothesis is that some of the...