2024-03-28T18:12:17
114682
Thu Mar 28 18:12:17 EDT 2024
Replication data for: Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners' Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union
Kai Gehring
Stephan A. Schneider
114682
https://doi.org/10.3886/E114682V1
We demonstrate that the nationalities of EU Commissioners influence budget allocation decisions in favor of their country of origin. Our focus is on the Commissioners for Agriculture, who are exclusively responsible for a specific fund that accounts for the largest share of the overall EU budget. On average, providing the Commissioner causes a 1 percentage point increase in a country's share of the overall EU budget, which corresponds to 850 million euros per year. There are no different pretreatment trends and the magnitude of the bias from selection-on-unobservables would have to be implausibly high to account for the estimated coefficient.
European Union
fiscal transfers
federalism
redistribution
favoritism
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
F55 International Institutional Arrangements
H61 National Budget; Budget Systems
H77 Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession
European Union
event/transaction data
observational data
program source code
aggregate data
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