Requests and options for the implementation of European Structural policy in the years 2014-2020 in the „new“ federal states including Berlin

The study focuses on an assessment of the funding period 2000-2006 and on an estimation of the prospective effects of the period 2007-2013. Based on these results, the requests and options for the funding period 2014-2020 will be worked out.
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Ex post evaluation of cohesion policy programmes 2000-2006 financed by the European Regional Development Fund, work package 6c: Enterprise support - econometric and counterfactual approach

The main objective of this study is to deliver empirical results on the effects of direct enterprise support on entrepreneurial target variables such as sales, employment, investment, or productivity.
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Future of the European Structural Funds in Northrhine-Westfalia

Facing an intensive discussion of the future development of EU Structural Policy following 2013, the State Chamber and the Ministry of Economics, Labour and Technology of North Rhine Westfalia commissioned the 'Study on European Structural Policy – Carrying on the subgoal „Regional competitiveness“'.
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New Project: Formal and effective incidenzce of federal means exerting spatial effects

The evaluation and conceptional development of the estimation approach on formal and effective incidence of federal means with spatial effects is a new project on behalf of the Federal office for Building and Regional Planning (Bonn).
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Ruhr Economic Papers

Recently the Ruhr Economic Papers, edited by the economic faculties of the universities of Bochum, Dortmund and Duisberg-Essen, the RGS ECON and the RWI Essen, published two papers of the GEFRA: "Trade-FDI Linkages in a System of Gravity Equations for German Regional Data" by Timo Mitze, Björn Alecke and Gerhard Untiedt as well as "Endogeneity in Panel Data Models with Time-Varying and Time-Fixed Regressors: To IV or not IV?" by Timo Mitze.
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