Regional absorption capacity of EU funds

Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance∗

The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a per-capita GDP level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget. This rule gives rise to a regression-discontinuity design that exploits the discrete jump in the prob...

Ireland's Economic Transition: The role of EU Regional Funds - and other factors

Ireland's economy has made an outstanding progress in the last 40 years goingfrom a relatively poor country to the present EU average per capita income. The Irish economy was deliberately opened around 1960, after decades of following an import-substitution industrialisation policy. The Irish government established an agency for attracting FDI and decided to apply for membership in the EEe. Bef...

EU Structural and Cohesion Funds in Spain and Portugal: Is Regional and National Inequality Increasing?

Multi-dimensional regional inequality as an alternative allocation mechanism For EU Structural Funds remittances: The case of Spain and Hungary

We propose a multidimensional approach to regional inequality as an alternative allocation mechanism for EU Structural Funds remittances based on per capita GDP, particularly after EU enlargement. The indicators of regional inequality are combined to a composite index by means of Maasoumi’s aggregator function. We propose Partial Common Principal Component Aanalysis as the estimator of the weig...

measurement the absorption capacity of solar energy storage technology

Although solar energy is one of the most important renewable energies in Iran that most areas of the country, especially the Central Desert, have considerable ability to use, but the random nature of this type of energy makes it difficult to predict its output power and may cause problems in the performance of the feed systems. For this reason, the use of energy storage systems for periods of l...