Do EU funds crowd out other public expenditures? Evidence on the additionality principle from the detailed Czech municipalities’ data

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11230/16:10327607

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1233168" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1233168</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1233168" target="_blank" >10.1080/09654313.2016.1233168</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Do EU funds crowd out other public expenditures? Evidence on the additionality principle from the detailed Czech municipalities’ data

Original language description

European Union (EU) funds flowing into budgets of public sector organizations of its member states should be additional to their nationally funded expenditures. To investigate this additionality principle systematically, we develop a new empirical method. Our main hypothesis is that some of the EU-funded projects are crowding out national public expenditures. Not being able to reject the hypothesis would be consistent with violating the additionality principle. To test the hypothesis, we examine how EU funding translates into actual spending of relatively comparable municipalities of the Czech Republic. We innovatively match the municipal authorities’ budgetary data on EU-funded expenditure projects with their other, nationally funded, expenditures. We find no systemic crowding out of national public expenditures by EU funds at the level of operational programmes in the Czech municipalities’ data, which is consistent with no evidence of violating the additionality principle. Nonetheless, going down to the municipal level enables us to show how the results can pinpoint individual cases of EU fund’s potential mismanagement in Czech municipalities. Overall, we provide the first evaluation of the additionality principle at the level of individual recipients of EU funds and in doing so we develop a methodological approach potentially applicable to other fund recipients.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/TB02MPSV016" target="_blank" >TB02MPSV016: Solutions to negative effects of structural funds´interventions ( with focus on the Evropean Social Fund-ESF )</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Planning Studies

ISSN

0965-4313

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

2076-2095

UT code for WoS article

000386073600009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84988431109