EU Policy Priorities for the Next Political Cycle
 POLICY REPORTS       

  • Enhancing Objectivity and Decision Relevance: A Better Framework for Evaluating Cohesion Policies 
 POLICY BRIEF               

  • Energy and Climate Policy: Quantifying the Benefits of a European Approach 

  • Proposals for a Reformed European Asylum and Migration Policy 

  • How Has Trust in the EU Changed Over Time? 
 ECONPOL FORUM       

  • EU Policy Priorities: How to Ensure Europeʼs Competitiveness and Future Prosperity? 

  • Focus on Critical Key Technologies: The Race for Leadership in Industry and Technology Policy 

  • Economic Culture and Economic Performance 

  • Patience and the North-South Divide in Student Achievement in Italy and the United States 
 POLICY REPORTS           

Enhancing Objectivity and Decision Relevance: A Better Framework for Evaluating Cohesion Policies

 

By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU’s Cohesion Policy evaluation system is far developed and institutionalized. This report analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the Cohesion Policy evaluation system against principles established by the OECD and others and provides recommendations on how to further improve it. 
 POLICY BRIEF                 

Energy and Climate Policy: Quantifying the Benefits of a European Approach
EconPol Europe Annual Conference 2023: Geoeconomics – New Challenges for Europe

The European Emissions Trading System is a cornerstone of the EU climate policy and its development is set until 2030. However, it is unclear what will happen afterwards. A new Policy Brief compares three different scenarios: Rapid Decarbonization, 2050 Climate Neutral and a Break scenario. The simulations quantify the total benefits of a joint European effort at EUR 248 billion between 2024 and 2050. In the worst-case scenario, total costs could reach EUR 8.629 trillion.

Proposals for a Reformed European Asylum and Migration Policy
EconPol Europe Annual Conference 2023: Geoeconomics – New Challenges for Europe

The weaknesses of the Common European Asylum System have led to conflicts of interest between the EU’s external border states and the main destination countries, such as Germany. One reason why the European asylum system is overloaded is the lack of opportunities to enter the EU legally. Especially for low-skilled people, the chances of obtaining work visas in Europe are vanishingly small. The authors suggest that the EU should learn from Germany’s Western Balkans Regulation and create legal pathways for migration from African and Asian countries.

How Has Trust in the EU Changed Over Time?
EconPol Europe Annual Conference 2023: Geoeconomics – New Challenges for Europe

Over the past decade, crises have shaped public perceptions of the EU. Despite the rise of EU-critical parties, the EU and its institutions still enjoy higher levels of trust than national governments. However, declining trust is a problem in Greece and Italy. This article examines the question of trust in a (democratic) institution by combining two large-scale surveys, the World Value Survey and the European Value Survey.
ECONPOL FORUM           


Policy Debate of the Hour

EU Policy Priorities: How to Ensure Europeʼs Competitiveness and Future Prosperity?

Economic Policy and its Impact

Focus on Critical Key Technologies: The Race for Leadership in Industry and Technology Policy

Economic Policy and its Impact
Measures to promote technological sovereignty vary greatly from country to country and range from the promotion of R&D activities to subsidies for the construction of industrial plants. Systematic forecasting of technology trends would enable policy makers to deal with new technologies at an early stage and adapt policies and institutions. 

Institutions Across the World

Economic Culture and Economic Performance
Institutions Across the World
What effects have several cultural values, attitudes, and the like, on economic performance? In this article, Edmund S. Phelps shows a weak correlation between continental countries’ relative endowment of some cultural attributes and the relative performance of their national economies. However, not all of the cultural attributes hypothesized to be important were found to matter for performance. And not all continental countries were under-endowed in some of the cultural attributes that mattered a lot. 

Big Data-Based Economic Insights

Patience and the North-South Divide in Student Achievement in Italy and the United States
Big Data-Based Economic Insights
 
EU Cohesion Policy constitutes an important item in the EU budget. This article presents results from a pilot study that combines official data on projects co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the EU’s Cohesion Fund in the programming period 2007–2013, with remote sensing data on night light emission and land cover to assess the effect of EU funding on economic growth at the municipal level, where regional GDP data are not available. 
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