This final report focuses on evaluating the impact of the EU Funds (EUF, sum of structural and cohesion funds) on regional growth in terms of GDP, employment rate and gross fixed capital formation. The analysis is implemented with a counterfactual impact evaluation approach developed through two...

As part of the Ex post evaluation of the 2007-2013 programming period of the European Cohesion Policy this report deals with the impact of the varying per capita intensities of EU funds on regional growth. The works was separated in three tasks. The first one focuses on the analysis of how the...

This report uses data from Efige and from Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus and Orbis to estimate the effect of funding from the EU and national programmes on firms' employment, sales, added value, productivity and innovativeness. It also looks at the impact of subsidies to investment and R&D...

The purpose of this paper is to offer empirical evidence on the impact generated by investment subsidies awarded to industrial firms on employment, sales, investments and labor productivity. The analysis is based on unique firm-level administrative data provided by the Italian National...