A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...

Die Studie liefert eine evidenzbasierte Analyse der Qualität der Daseinsvorsorge und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Lebensumstände in Österreichs Städten. Dabei umfasst sie folgende Bereiche: a) Ausbildung und Erziehung, b) Gesundheit, c) Wohnen, d) öffentlicher Verkehr, e) die Ausgabenstruktur...

This paper analyses the economic effects of a reallocation of Cohesion Policy expenditures across EU countries. We evaluate a shift from stronger (i.e. older) Member States to less-developed EU economies (i.e. CEE countries) and vice versa. On top of that, we also assess the effects of a general...

This paper analyses the effects of the EU Cohesion Policy (CP) on the economic growth of 276 European NUTS-2 regions between 2008 and 2016. Using a structural equation model (SEM) consisting of both a measurement component (with two latent variables) and a structural component, we estimate the...