One or many cohesion policies of the European Union?: on the differential economic impacts of Cohesion Policy across Member States

Crescenzi, Riccardo ORCID: 0000-0003-0465-9796 and Giua, Mara ORCID: 0000-0001-8923-437X (2020) One or many cohesion policies of the European Union?: on the differential economic impacts of Cohesion Policy across Member States. Regional Studies, 54 (1). pp. 10-20. ISSN 0034-3404

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To what extent do regions in different member states of the European Union benefit from Cohesion Policy? A spatial regression discontinuity design approach offers distinct but fully comparable estimates of regional impacts for each individual member state. Cohesion Policy has a positive European Union-wide impact on regional growth and employment. However, a large part of the growth bonus is concentrated in Germany, while impacts on employment are confined to the UK. The picture in Southern Europe is less rosy. In Italy, positive impacts on employment do not survive the Great Recession, while in Spain economic growth benefits are limited to the recovery period.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cres20/current
Additional Information:	© 2019 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Geography & Environment Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
JEL classification:	O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R5 - Regional Government Analysis > R58 - Regional Development Policy
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2019 09:15
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 01:52
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101506

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