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Régimes de croissance et aides publiques aux entreprises en Europe

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Research projet led in partnership with IRES-FO

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Following on from the research carried out by LIEPP's Socio-fiscal Policy Unit, this research project, carried out in collaboration with IRES-FO, proposes to explore the dynamics between growth regimes and public aid to businesses. A variety of growth regimes coexist within the European Union. These different growth regimes shape the institutions and public policies implemented by the governments of the various Member States (Hassel and Palier, 2021). However, the study of public support schemes for businesses specific to growth regimes has so far been neglected. And yet, over the last thirty years or so, public aid to businesses has increased steadily in France (Abdelsalam et al., 2022, Delatte, 2023). This is also the case in Europe, where public aid to businesses relative to GDP increased by 12% between 2000 and 2019.

From an interdisciplinary perspective, the first challenge of this study will be to determine the extent to which public aid is integrated into and shapes the growth regimes of the Member States of the European Union. The first task will be to produce an analysis of changes in the structure and levels of public aid to businesses in the Member States of the European Union between 2001 and 2022, using the State aid Scoreboard database produced by Eurostat, which lists public aid to businesses by type of economic operation since 2001 for the 27 Member States of the European Union.

The second challenge of this research project will be to assess the effects of public aid to businesses. How can this aid be assessed and what indicators should be used? They have multiple objectives and their effectiveness cannot be assessed on the basis of a single dependent variable. A number of quantitative estimates have already been made of the effects of this aid on exports (Stöllinger and Holzner, 2017), on employment (Staneviciute, 2012) or on the financial strength of companies (Heim et al., 2017). The aim of this project is to assess the impact of public aid in terms of its consistency with the institutional specificities of growth regimes. This evaluation will highlight the contradictions or complementarities between the institutions that structure public aid to companies and growth regimes.

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