Importance of EU regional support programmes for firm performance

This paper investigates the effects of EU regional support on firm productivity, the number of employees and other performance indicators. We use a rich firm-level dataset for Latvia – the country, where investment activities are largely affected by the availability of EU funding. After controlling...

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Published in:Economic policy 2019-04, Vol.34 (98), p.267-313
Main Authors: Beņkovskis, Konstantīns, Tkačevs, Oļegs, Yashiro, Naomitsu
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Regional development
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