This paper presents an assessment of the macroeconomic impact of the Digital Europe Programme, a cornerstone of the EU's commitment to drive digital transformation. Using the RHOMOLO spatial dynamic computable general equilibrium model, the analysis quantifies the effects of the programme's...

Large language models (LLMs) can lower the cost of producing complex text, potentially reshaping competition for research and development (R&D) funding to private firms. We provide the first evidence on this issue using data covering the universe of firm applications to a major competitive R&D...

The European Union is experiencing profound demographic shifts. This paper presents an analysis of observed population trends encompassing observations for the period 2000-2022 and projections until 2040 at the NUTS3 level. The projections were obtained by regionalizing the 2021 Ageing Report's...

This study uses Eurofound's European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) data to examine the spatial and sectoral distribution of large-scale restructuring events - such as company closures, bankruptcies, mergers and acquisition, business relocation and expansions - across EU regions between 2003 and...

This report focuses on the assessment of the economic performance of selected industrial ecosystems. In particular, it offers an in-depth discussion of the developments across those ecosystems that exhibited the largest shares of total Gross Value Added in 2019, the year prior to the eruption of...

This paper introduces the new module of the European Commission's Territorial Economic Data viewer (TEDv) namely, the Industrial Module. The aim is to present the data sources and the methodological approach employed to generate the various dashboards included in this new module. Its usefulness...

This paper explores the spatial patterns associated with large-scale relocation events in the European Union. It examines both relocation within national borders and delocalisation across countries, using data from 2002 to 2023 at the NUTS2 level. The study draws on Eurofound's European...

This study examines the dual nature of green discontent, which manifests as dissatisfaction with insufficient climate action and opposition to policies perceived as overly restrictive or economically disruptive. The analysis focuses on the spatial dimensions of this phenomenon, assessing how...

This paper introduces a novel approach to measuring synergies between Horizon 2020 and cohesion policy funding in the field of R&I during the 2014-2020 programming period. Leveraging project-level data, we calculate regional cosine similarity indices based on societal grand challenges (SGCs)...

The impacts of the green and the digital transitions on the regional economic structure of the European Union are of paramount importance and have been at the forefront of the recent policy discussions. This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion by developing a composite indicator to...