Replication data for: Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners' Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Kai Gehring; Stephan A. Schneider

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Project Citation:

Gehring, Kai, and Schneider, Stephan A. Replication data for: Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners’ Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114682V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: European Union; fiscal transfers; federalism; redistribution; favoritism

JEL Classification:
      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

Geographic Coverage: European Union

Time Period(s):

Universe: See paper for details

Data Type(s): event/transaction data; observational data; program source code; aggregate data

Collection Notes: See paper for details

Methodology

Data Source: See paper for details

Unit(s) of Observation: Member state,

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V1 [2019-10-13]

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