Structural Funding and Disadvantage of Regions: Public and Non-Public Beneficiaries Cover Image

Strukturální fondy a znevýhodnění regionů: veřejní a neveřejní příjemci podpory
Structural Funding and Disadvantage of Regions: Public and Non-Public Beneficiaries

Author(s): Oldřich Hájek, Jiří Novosák, Radek Jurčík, Daniela Spiesová, Jana Novosáková
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Economy
Published by: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Keywords: structural funds; regional disparities; cohesion policy; public beneficiaries; non-public beneficiaries; coherence of policies; Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: Considering the differences between public and non-public beneficiaries, the main aim of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between the disadvantage of Czech regions and the spatial distribution of EU structural funds in the programming period 2007–2013. The empirical results reveal negative and significant influence of socioeconomic disadvantage of regions on the amount of structural funds obtained by public beneficiaries. On the contrary, agglomeration economies are the statistically significant determinant of the amount of structural funds obtained by non-public beneficiaries. These conclusions are related to different absorption capacity of regions, regarding the number and size of projects. Overall, structural funds do not compensate for the disadvantage of regions, neither for public nor for non-public beneficiaries.

  • Issue Year: 67/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 113-132
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Czech