Despite its rather broad goal of promoting 'economic, social and territorial cohesion', the existing literature has mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the...

The impact of the EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated by analysing its growth effects. However, this perspective neglects that the EU support might affect other policy fields as well. There are at least two reasons why the impact on public investment should be of special interest. First...

Verl.Beschr. (auch Zentralabitur-Thema 2012): Die Kohäsionspolitik wird wie alle anderen Ausgaben des EU-Haushalts zusammen mit der Einnahmeseite in die gegenwärtige umfassende Generalüberprüfung des EU-Finanzsystems einbezogen. Die Studie will zu dieser Überprüfung durch Behandlung einer...

Despite its rather broad goal of promoting "economic, social and territorial cohesion", the existing literature has mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the...