Grants-in-aid and the prospect of re-election: The impact of EU funds on mayoral elections in Poland

We investigate whether grants-in-aid help the recipient government to get re-elected. We take Poland as our testing ground and analyze the impact of EU funds spent within a municipality on mayoral elections in 2010 and 2014. We employ an instrumental variables approach to account for the endogeneity...

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Published in:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 22-2018)
Main Authors: Banaszewska, Monika, Bischoff, Ivo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2018
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MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics