The primary aim of the study is to deepen understanding of economic development in the EU regions through identifying the regions that have performed well and those that have performed poorly over recent years, to analyse the factors underlying these differences in performance by econometric means as well as through case studies of selected regions and to draw our the policy implications.

Cambridge Econometrics, UK (lead contractor); Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies – wiiw, AT

European Commission, DG Regional Policy

Lydia Greunz, Terry Ward