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,...

This article reviews the implementation of the Cohesion Regional Policy of the European Union in the Basque country. It begins recalling the initial support of the FEDER and it continues telling, one by one, the different periods of multiannual program. It values the reach of the Basque...

The Structural Funds (SF) are the main instrument of the European Union for conducting its regional policy. Through funding the European Regional Policy by EU funds, the Union complements and supports national activities. It has an impact on development planning at regional and local level. In...

This study proposes a comparative analysis at regional level, of concentration level of expenditure co-financed by the Structural Funds in the programming period 2007/13. For main types of expenditure, we evaluate by the concentration index of Herfindahl-Hirschman the level of concentration of...

This paper analyzes the growth and employment effects of the 1994-99 Community Support Framework (CSF) for the Objective 1 Spanish regions using a simple supply-side model estimated with a panel of regional data. The results suggest that the impact of the Structural Funds in Spain has been quite...

Besides its primary scope of supporting the lagging behind areas, the EU regional policy represents also the flexible companion of other EU objectives and policies: it was reshaped many times in order to meet EU challanges and realities, either these were linked to enlargement or to the...