García-Valiñas, Maria A.; Zaporozhets, Vera - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2015
We examine the determinants of the EU budget expenditures allocation among different countries. Following previous … literature, we consider two alternative explanations for the EU budget distribution: political power vs. 'needs view'. Taking the … situations such as the EU budget allocation. Our results also show that the relative weight of political power when explaining …