Absorptive Capacity and the Growth and Investment Effects of Regional Transfers: A Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

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Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities (2020, positive): “The positive effects are driven by regions with high human capital, as measured by education of the workforce, and high-quality local government, as measured by survey data about public services (Becker, Egger, Ehrlich 2013).”
One or many Cohesion Policies of the European Union? On the differential economic impacts of Cohesion Policy across member states (2019, result): “We identify a positive effect of Cohesion Policy on economic growth, with both sign and magnitude of the coefficient (Table 2, A) in line with existing estimates (Becker et al., 2010, 2013; Pellegrini et al., 2013).”
Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy (2019, background): “…impact of 3 Holmes (1998); Albouy (2009); and Wilson (2009) consider other place-based tax policies, while Wren and Taylor (1999); Bronzini and de Blasio (2006); Martin, Mayer, and Mayneris (2011); and Becker, Egger, and von Ehrlich (2010, 2012, 2013) provide evidence for regional policy in Europe.”