The impact of the recovery fund on EU regions: a spatial general equilibrium analysis
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We use a spatial general equilibrium model to assess the macroeconomic and distributional impact of the European Commission’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). We employ two alternative regional distributions of investments: one based on the regional share of population only, and the other based on Cohesion Policy criteria. Our results suggest that the disbursement of RRF grants would lead to an increase in the European Union’s gross domestic product (GDP) of approximately 0.85% in 2026, corresponding to a present value GDP multiplier of 1.22. The latter rises to 3.25 in the long run. Under the population criterion, GDP impacts are higher relative to the Cohesion criterion, at the detriment of territorial cohesion.
Date Issued
2024-02
Date Acceptance
2022-10-01
Citation
Regional Studies, 2024, 58 (2), pp.336-349
ISSN
0034-3404
Publisher
Taylor and Francis Group
Start Page
336
End Page
349
Journal / Book Title
Regional Studies
Volume
58
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or
built upon in any way.
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2123467
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-10-13