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Regional Studies, Jul 7, 2023
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2023
REGION
In the programming period 2007-2013, the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) invested ... more In the programming period 2007-2013, the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) invested €237 million in Slovak hospitals. We investigate whether this injection of additional funds has improved the quality of healthcare in the targeted hospitals. As a measure of quality, we use the readmission rate (ratio of readmissions within 30 days over total hospitalizations) and the mortality rate. Our results show a statistically significant but small effect of ESIF on the readmission rate but not on the mortality rate. We argue that these results suggest that the main problem in Slovak healthcare is low productivity rather than lack of funding.
Comparative Political Economy: Fiscal Policy eJournal, 2016
We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and co... more We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum. We .nd that past European transfers have played virtually no role in the referendum. Economically strong regions tend to be in favor of remaining in the EU. Somewhat surprisingly, the intensity of immigration from the EU is positively correlated with the Remain vote.
We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions,... more We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the European Union’s Natura 2000 program) as instruments for the receipts of funds from the EU Cohesion Policy. We find that the European funds have a significant and positive effect on regional economic growth in the EU. The inter-regional spillovers in the effect of Cohesion Policy on regional growth are found to be important: most of the effect takes place outside of the recipient region rather than inside. However, there is considerable heterogeneity in the effect of Cohesion Policy across individual EU member states: the effect is stronger in the new member states, and weak or negative in the countries hit by the recent austerity measures. Finally, our results confirm the positive impact of ...
Inspired by Oosterhaven and Van Der Linden (1997), Oosterhaven and Hoen (1998) and Hoen (2002), t... more Inspired by Oosterhaven and Van Der Linden (1997), Oosterhaven and Hoen (1998) and Hoen (2002), this paper analyzes the structural changes in the Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) that took place in the course of their integration into the European Union using structural decomposition analysis. Two variables, value added and employment, are decomposed for the period 1996-2008 as well as 1996-2004 and 2004-2008, what allows a comparison between the pre-accession period and the post-accession period for all four countries. The results point out that both variables were driven by the changes in the domestic final demand, what might be the result of an increase in productivity. Interestingly, the effect of the changes in exports to the old member states declined after the accession. On the contrary, the effect of the changes in exports to the other new member states and the rest of the world increased in the post-accession period in all Visegrád countries...
European Journal of Political Economy
Regional Studies, Jul 7, 2023
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2023
REGION
In the programming period 2007-2013, the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) invested ... more In the programming period 2007-2013, the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) invested €237 million in Slovak hospitals. We investigate whether this injection of additional funds has improved the quality of healthcare in the targeted hospitals. As a measure of quality, we use the readmission rate (ratio of readmissions within 30 days over total hospitalizations) and the mortality rate. Our results show a statistically significant but small effect of ESIF on the readmission rate but not on the mortality rate. We argue that these results suggest that the main problem in Slovak healthcare is low productivity rather than lack of funding.
Comparative Political Economy: Fiscal Policy eJournal, 2016
We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and co... more We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum. We .nd that past European transfers have played virtually no role in the referendum. Economically strong regions tend to be in favor of remaining in the EU. Somewhat surprisingly, the intensity of immigration from the EU is positively correlated with the Remain vote.
We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions,... more We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the European Union’s Natura 2000 program) as instruments for the receipts of funds from the EU Cohesion Policy. We find that the European funds have a significant and positive effect on regional economic growth in the EU. The inter-regional spillovers in the effect of Cohesion Policy on regional growth are found to be important: most of the effect takes place outside of the recipient region rather than inside. However, there is considerable heterogeneity in the effect of Cohesion Policy across individual EU member states: the effect is stronger in the new member states, and weak or negative in the countries hit by the recent austerity measures. Finally, our results confirm the positive impact of ...
Inspired by Oosterhaven and Van Der Linden (1997), Oosterhaven and Hoen (1998) and Hoen (2002), t... more Inspired by Oosterhaven and Van Der Linden (1997), Oosterhaven and Hoen (1998) and Hoen (2002), this paper analyzes the structural changes in the Visegrád countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) that took place in the course of their integration into the European Union using structural decomposition analysis. Two variables, value added and employment, are decomposed for the period 1996-2008 as well as 1996-2004 and 2004-2008, what allows a comparison between the pre-accession period and the post-accession period for all four countries. The results point out that both variables were driven by the changes in the domestic final demand, what might be the result of an increase in productivity. Interestingly, the effect of the changes in exports to the old member states declined after the accession. On the contrary, the effect of the changes in exports to the other new member states and the rest of the world increased in the post-accession period in all Visegrád countries...
European Journal of Political Economy