1st Edition
Place-based Economic Development and the New EU Cohesion Policy
1. The Reforms to the Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union: EU Cohesion Policy
Philip Mccann and Attila Varga
2. Conditionalities and the Performance of European Structural Funds: A Principal–Agent Analysis of Control Mechanisms in European Union Cohesion Policy
John Bachtler and Martin Ferry
3. Quality of Government and the Returns of Investment: Examining the Impact of Cohesion Expenditure in European Regions
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Enrique Garcilazo
4. Smart Specialization, Regional Growth and Applications to European Union Cohesion Policy
Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés
5. When Spatial Equilibrium Fails: Is Place-Based Policy Second Best?
Mark D. Partridge, Dan S. Rickman, M. Rose Olfert and Ying Tan
6. The Potential Application of Qualitative Evaluation Methods in European Regional Development: Reflections on the Use of Performance Story Reporting in Australian Natural Resource Management
Frank Vanclay
7. RHOMOLO: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling Approach to the Evaluation of the European Union’s R&D Policies
Andries Brandsma and D’Artis Kancs
Biography
Philip McCann holds The University of Groningen Endowed Chair of Economic Geography in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and is also the Tagliaferri Research Fellow in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge 2015-2018. He is one of the world’s most highly cited and widely published economic geographers and spatial economists of his generation.
Attila Varga is Professor and Director of the Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre at the University of Pécs. He is an internationally well-known researcher of the field of regional innovation and economic development. He publishes widely and serves on the editorial boards of various international journals.
