Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?A Panel Data Analysis of the Conditional Effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy

Ederveen, Sjef; Groot, H.L.F. de; Nahuis, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6435.2006.00318.x

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“…for countries with low quality institutions the impact can be negative" (Katsaitis & Doulos, 2009, p. 573). This corroborates earlier research suggesting that the EU funds' efficacy is conditional on national institutional quality (Ederveen, de Groot, & Nahuis, 2006). Other reports have also been critical of the degree to which cohesion policy has successfully achieved its goals (Boldrin & Canova, 2001).…”

Section: The Efficacy Of Eu Fundssupporting

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The EU Budget's Impact on Public Opinion

Stern¹

2016

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Public opinion on the European Union (EU) is significant and therefore a worthwhile topic of consideration. Analyses have identified and ordered the factors that impact public opinion on the EU, as well analyzed the efficacy of EU funds. Yet the confluence of these two lines of inquiry is understudied. Some Member States have surpluses and others deficits relative to the EU budget, which could impact citizens' perceptions of the EU. To gauge this potential relationship, this article notes deficit and surplus Member States and responses to one Eurobarometer question about trust in the European Commission from 2000-2013. These variables are used to evaluate the EU budget's impact on public opinion towards the EU. The data suggest that there is a limited correlation between the two. EU funds are overshadowed as a cause of public opinion formation on the EU by other forces, but can still influence it at the margins. KeywordsEuropean Commission, European Union budget, political trust, public opinion EU Budget and Public Opinion Kai Stern University of Washington 68 IntroductionPublic opinion on the European Union (EU) is highly consequential. It can have a significant impact on politics and policy in the EU. Attitudes towards European integration as an idea or the EU as an institution have manifested themselves in a spectacular fashion through national referenda on EU membership and treaties. They do so in more quotidian modes through regional, national, and supranational elections and public consultation with government institutions. The EU as an institution is dependent on maintaining some level of public support and legitimization.The importance of public opinion's impact on EU politics and policymaking means that understanding how public attitudes towards the EU are formed and why they change is a vital topic of consideration. Hypothesizing about the reasons behind individuals' attitudes towards the EU has tended to center on either identity related or utilitarian rationales. Most analyses in the latter category have focused on the broader economic implications of the EU, seeing the EU as primarily economic in nature and theorizing that the distributional consequences of integration have a strong causative impact on individual attitudes towards the EU. Yet, the specific impact of the EU budget has been only marginally analyzed, despite its attractions. The direct pecuniary mechanisms available to the EU are restricted to its budget. Furthermore, unlike the more nebulous benefits proceeding from the common market, the EU budget has a tangible and traceable quality. Individuals can see the impact of and may be subsidized by programs financed by the EU budget, such as those targeting regional development. Whether the EU can influence public attitudes through budgetary allocations is consequential to the extent that the EU may utilize such mechanisms to enhance its legitimacy. Thus, an understanding of the extent to which the EU budget affects public opinion towards the EU is politically as well as academical...

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Section: The Efficacy Of Eu Fundssupporting

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2016

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“…2 Regional structural financing and regional income 13 For example, Ederveen et al (2003) in their study for European regions allocated structural support of national coverage between regions approximately, using the population of each region. In a subsequent study, Ederveen et al (2006) restricted their attention to those SF categories where reliable data exists (like the European regional development fund) and made inferences about the whole SF support.…”

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“…Ederveen et al (2003) find that the SF support satisfies its redistributive target and reduces income disparities in the EU. Ederveen et al (2006) find that the SF impact is beneficial as long as there is a ''reliable'' institutional framework in the recipient country, while Beugelsdijk and Eijffinger (2005) detect a positive SF impact of the lagging behind EU countries on convergence irrespectively of-what they call-the ''corruption level'' of the beneficiary economy. Dall'erba and Le Gallo (2008) detect strong regional convergence in EU but the SF effect is statistically significant only when spatial interactions are taken into account.…”

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The effect of EU structural funds on regional growth: assessing the evidence from Greece, 1990–2005

Lolos

2009

Econ Change Restruct

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“…The econometric approach for the evaluation of the impact of structural funds was used by e.g., Rodríguez-Pose and Fratesi (2004) or Puigcerver-Peñalver (2007). Ederveen et al (2006) or Beugelsdijk and Eijffinger (2005) also used regression models to assess the process of convergence and effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy. Table 1 provides an overview of some European policy impact surveys through statistical methods, which document the authors' variance in the choice of the unit being analyzed, the time period, and the method used.…”

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Economic performance of the NUTS III Regions in the Czech Republic in the context of entrepreneurship subsidies from the EU Structural Funds

Kolaříková¹,

Dvouletý²,

Kolařík³

2018

Zb. rad. Ekon. fak. Rij.

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Entrepreneurship is considered to be one of the essential factors of economic growth and entrepreneurship policy is considered to be a significant contributor to the regional economic development. The aim of the present paper is to determine whether the unemployment rate and the GDP per capita of the NUTS III regions in the Czech Republic are influenced by the amount of financial subsidies paid to businesses from the Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation (OPEI). We employed regression analysis and Granger Causality testing in order to

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Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?A Panel Data Analysis of the Conditional Effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy

Cited by 273 publications

References 23 publications

The EU Budget's Impact on Public Opinion

The EU Budget's Impact on Public Opinion

The effect of EU structural funds on regional growth: assessing the evidence from Greece, 1990–2005

Economic performance of the NUTS III Regions in the Czech Republic in the context of entrepreneurship subsidies from the EU Structural Funds

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