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Are regional fiscal multipliers on EU structural and investment fund spending large? A reassessment of the evidence

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  • Fiuratti, Federico
  • Nikolova, Desislava
  • Pennings, Steven
  • Schiffbauer, Marc

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The European Commission’s “NextGenerationEU” COVID-19 recovery package has underscored interest in the size of regional fiscal multipliers in Europe. While the objective of EU funds is generally the long-term transformation and growth of EU economies, several recent papers have estimated large short-term regional multipliers on historical EU structural and investment fund spending. This paper reevaluates the evidence by estimating relative regional short-term multipliers using recent data on EU fund spending at the subnational (NUTS2) level and a leave-one-out predicted disbursement schedule instrument. In contrast with much of the recent literature, we find little evidence of large relative GDP multipliers. While investment responds strongly to EU funds, often increasing euro for euro, we also find suggestive evidence of crowding out of other government consumption.

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  • Fiuratti, Federico & Nikolova, Desislava & Pennings, Steven & Schiffbauer, Marc, 2025. "Are regional fiscal multipliers on EU structural and investment fund spending large? A reassessment of the evidence," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jmacro:v:85:y:2025:i:c:s0164070425000291
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2025.103692
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    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • F45 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions

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