We provide an empirical study analysing the distribution of EU funds among 2478 Polish municipalities in the period of … the multiannual financial framework 2007 - 2013. We find EU funds to be concentrated in smaller municipalities and … economically weak sub-regions. Expenditures of EU funds per capita do not decrease in the municipalities' fiscal capacity. This …

Abstract We provide an empirical study analysing the distribution of EU funds among 2478 Polish municipalities in the … period 2007–2011. EU funds are found to be concentrated in smaller municipalities and economically weak sub-regions, and do … follow their own political self-interest when allocating EU funds even though national parties only play a minor role in …

We want to find out whether grants-in-aid help the recipient government to get re-elected. We take Poland as our … testing ground and analyze the impact of EU funds spent within a municipality on mayoral elections in 2010 and 2014. We employ … an instrumental variables approach to account for the endogeneity of EU funds. Our results show that EU funds do not …

broad measure defined as the ratio between disposable and primary incomes – and EU structural and investment funds. It … for the role of the EU structural and investment funds over the medium term, based on the newly available – and richest so …

in the global economy have further increased the high pressure on the EU to undergo modernisation. In this context …, structural and Cohesion Policy is of double interest. With 30 per cent of the regular EU budget, it is one of its most important … arises to pave the way for the enlargement and/or deepening of the EU through financial compensation. The paper sheds light …