Study Regarding State Aid Expenditure in EU

Authors

  • Zai Paul Vasile Babeş Bolyai University

Keywords:

state aid, EU 27, non-crisis aid, crisis-related aid.

Abstract

This paper aims to study all types of state aid expenditure from E.U. 27 between 2003-2012. We have used two sources of data: the European statistics database Eurostat and the database provided on the European Commission’s web site. There are presented two big categories of aid Non-crisis and Crisis-related aid.

In the European Union, budgetary policy emphasizes the harmonization of tax systems in the Member States to diminish various tax obstacles, and eliminate harmful tax competition. Also we have to be noted the interest of Member States to reduce the level of state aid and better use them to avoid negative effects on competition.

This paper is including also a forecasting part.  It was made for the main categories of aid: total state aid, non-crisis state aid, the horizontal state aid and sectorial state aid. We have calculated fixed based indices, chain based indices, share in total, minimum, maximum and the average for different types of aid. The most important components of horizontal aid is Regional development aid and Environmental protection and energy saving aid and the most important sectorial aids are Agriculture aid and Transport aid.

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Published

2015-05-15

How to Cite

Vasile, Z. P. (2015). Study Regarding State Aid Expenditure in EU. International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories, 5(3), 314-320. Retrieved from http://ijept.eu/index.php/ijept/article/view/Study_Regarding_State_Aid_Expenditure_in_EU

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2015): Special issue on Competitiveness and Economic & Social Cohesion

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