The Territorial Redistributive Power of the EU Budget: Empirical Evidence at National and Regional Levels

Marta Espasa
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Marta Espasa: Department of Public Finance, University of Barcelona, and Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), Avgda Diagonal 690, 08034 Barcelona, Spain

Environment and Planning C, 2001, vol. 19, issue 5, 771-790

Abstract: The author's purpose is to estimate the redistributive power of the European Union budget among the European countries and regions. The analysis is focused on the main items of revenue, expenditure, and net fiscal balance. First, the income elasticity of the European Union revenues, expenditures, and fiscal balance are estimated in order to examine the degree to which these instruments are progressive. Second, the impact of these instruments in the regional and national income is analysed with the objective of evaluating the capacity to reduce differences in per capita income levels.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1068/c0038

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