How to break the populist wave? With the elections to the European Parliament ahead, and the Presidential Elections in the US looming, this question bothers policymakers in many Western democracies. Our study shows that regional policies effectively decrease populist support. Specifically, EU...

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general prac- titioners (GPs). We leverage Germany’s needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile...

The paper evaluates the impact of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) grants on profit-oriented firms' post-treatment performance. Using a quasi-experimental design and a dataset covering applicants from 46 countries, we find that FP7 grants increase firms' sales and...