EAN: 9783319095189

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN REGIONAL SCIENCE REGIONAL P...

The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making 
especially in a period of severe budget constraints. The literature has proposed several
methods to deal with the issue of causality and counterfactual evaluation in a variety of
contexts  with an increasing attention to the local dimension. The book aims to present the
state-of-the-art of evaluation techniques with a special focus on the consideration of
geographical and spatial effects into existing methodologies (such as propensity score matching
regression discontinuity  difference-in-difference). Furthermore  the volume highlights how
strict the identification conditions for models with spatial effects are and proposes
instrumental variables as a technique able to circumvent the issue. Finally  some insights into
the emerging literature on ex ante evaluation are offered with respect to EU Cohesion Policy.

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