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Regional devolopment and solidarity in Spain: the relationship between the E.C. and the internal solidarity funds.

Alvarez-García, Santiago; Aparicio-Perez, Antonio; … - 2004

This paper will analyse the importance that the Regional Solidarity Funds have acquired in the financial systems of those Autonomous Communities able to benefit from them, and the influence that these Funds have had in their development. In addition, the special role that Structural Funds have...

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Evaluation of Cross-Border Leakages in Community Support Frameworks. The case of Andalusia (Spain).

Morillas, Antonio; Moniche, Laura; Castro, Marc - 2004

The enlargement of the European Union to 25 members implies that relative position of Andalusia will improve with regard to the new GDP per capita average. This fact may derive a reduction in structural funds support for this Spanish region objective 1. This paper is focused in the ex-post...

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Structural Funds and Economic Divide in Italy

Francesco, Aiello; Valeria, Pupo - 2010

This paper provides a contribution to the debate on the role of EU cohesion policy in Italy. The focus is on the territorial effects of EU spending from 1996 to 2007. The empirical analysis considers a neoclassical growth model which is augmented by the structural funds spent by each region....

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The EU Structural Funds as a Means to hamper Migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

Comparing the economic development and current situation of the internal markets of the U.S. and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably the Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging...

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EU regional policy: Its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments: A panel data analysis for the EU-28 member countries

Schmidt, Peter - 2016

This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...

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Subsistence and semi subsistence agriculture in Romania

Vlad, Mihaela Cristina - 2014

The paper aims to analyze the main question that arises in the context of current agricultural policies: are households farms really? Viewed from the perspective of sustainable development of rural areas, the answer becomes very important, especially given that the actual shortcomings rural...

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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2010

countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy through entry regulation and subsidies. In this paper we … another, strategic motive for entry subsidies as the tightening of market selection leads to a competitive advantage for … domestic producers in international trade. Our analysis shows that entry subsidies in the Nash-equilibrium are first increasing …

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Sub-national governments' tax structure in the EU countries

Trasberg, Viktor - 2015

The paper analyses the European Union sub-national governments? tax revenue structures and their dynamic during the last decades. Tax composition obtained a considerable interest during the recent years, particularly after the recent global financial and economic crisis. In many European Union...

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Competition, regulation and broadband access to the internet

Götz, Georg - 2011

This paper re-examines the effect of the regulatory regime on both penetration and coverage of broadband access to the internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband demand and supply. A welfare analysis asks what the...

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