This paper evaluates the effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy in the regions of 12 EU countries in the period 1991–2008, on the basis of a spatial growth model, which allows for the identification of both direct and indirect effects of EU funds on GDP per worker growth. We find that...

This paper proposes a methodology which combines elements of parametric regression analysis with the nonparametric distribution dynamics approach in order to analyse the role of some variables in the convergence of productivity across European regions over the period 1980-2002. We find that the...

This study investigates the relationship between women's political empowerment and quality of government in European regions. Given that the association is expected to be endogenous, we use exogenous variation in pre-industrial societal traits, legal origins, geographic characteristics, and...