Cost-Benefit Analysis and Incentives in Evaluation The Structural Funds of the European Union Edited by Massimo Florio Professor of Public Economics and Jean Monnet Chair of Economics of European Integration, University of Milan, Italy Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA,...

Additionality is one of the key principles driving the functioning of the EU Cohesion Policies (ECP). The present paper studies how additionality affects the distributional effects of the ECP. Using the example of the firm-level investment support, we analyse the role of additionality and...