The contributors to this volume explore the future of EU Cohesion Policy, one of the main pillars of the EU budget. With contributions from 15 experts, the volume focuses on the rationale of Cohesion Policy, its economic impacts over 30 years, effectiveness factors, and ways to enhance performance and evaluations.
The contributors to this volume explore the future of the European Union's Cohesion Policy, one of the main pillars of the EU budget. The 12 stand-alone chapters written by 15 leading experts are structured around four main topics: the policy's fundamental rationales in a changing environment, what is already known and gaps in knowledge regarding the economic impacts of the policy since its inception 30 years ago, the study of factors that enable or stifle the effectiveness of the policy, and, finally, ways to enhance the performance and credible evaluations of the policy.
Table of contents:
Editorial
The SystemClemens Fuest : Fundamental Considerations for a More Rational EU Cohesion Policy in the Future -
Michael Thöne : The Fiscal Architecture of the EU Cohesion Policy -
Lars Feld/Joshua Hassib : On the Role of EU Cohesion Policy for Climate Policy -
Päivi Leino-Sandberg : Cohesion Policy and the Principle of Subsidiarity - A Legal Analysis
The ImpactMaximilian von Ehrlich : The Importance of EU Cohesion Policy for Economic Growth and Convergence -
Valentin Lang : The Distributional Effects of Place-Based Policies in the EU
The Conditions for SuccessUgo Fratesi : Constraining and Enabling Factors of a Successful EU Regional Policy in Europe -
Julia Bachtrögler-Unger : The Role of Administrative Capacity for an Effective Implementation of EU Cohesion Policy -
Zareh Asatryan/Carlo Birkholz/Friedrich Heinemann : The Heterogeneous Output-Impacts of EU Cohesion Policy - A Review of Recent Literature
Governance and EvaluationFrancesco Corti, Matteo Pedralli/Chiara Pancotti : The Recovery and Resilience Facility: Key Innovations and the Interplay with Cohesion Policy -
Zareh Asatryan, Carlo Birkholz/Friedrich Heinemann : The System of EU Cohesion Policy Evaluations -
Friedrich Heinemann : Enhancing Precision in Assessing the European Added Value of Cohesion Policy