Spatial allocation of European structural funds : what is the role of strategic interactions?

Yves Koala and Lionel Védrine

This chapter explores the role of strategic interactions that affect the spatial allocation of structural funds in the European Union. More specifically, this chapter seeks to test if the interactions between government decisions are strategic substitutes or complements in the context of the European structural funds allocation. First, we present a theoretical model which depicts how the strategic interactions could affect the allocation of public grants in a bargaining process. Then, we test the direction of strategic interaction on the allocation of structural funds for the 2000-2006 programming period using spatial econometric techniques. We find a negative spatial interaction between European funds allocated to a region and the funds received by its neighborhood. Our results suggest strategic substitutability in the lobbying effort of regions to attract European funds.

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Koala, Yves ; Vedrine, Lionel
Published in:	Innovations in urban and regional systems : contributions from GIS&T, spatial analysis and location modeling. - Cham, Switzerland : Springer, ISBN 978-3-030-43692-6. - 2020, p. 257-279
Subject:	EU-Strukturfonds \| EU structural funds \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries \| Theorie \| Theory \| Räumliche Verteilung \| Spatial distribution

Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz im Buch ; Book section
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-030-43694-0_12 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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