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Ex Post State Aid Evaluation in Environmental Aid journal article

Hans Friederiszick, Ela Głowicka, Linda Gratz, Simone Lünenbürger, Andreas Rosenfeld

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 17 (2018), Issue 4, Page 509 - 524

The obligation to carry out an ex post evaluation of certain State aid measures was introduced in the European Union in 2014. This obligation represents an important element of the broader State Aid Modernisation initiative of DG Competition. In this article, we offer guidance, both from a legal and an economic perspective, on when an ex post evaluation is required, which methods are available and which methods are actually considered by Member States. More specifically, we propose a ‘traffic light system’, supporting a self-assessment of whether an ex post evaluation is required for a specific measure or not. Furthermore, we review the 24 evaluation plans which were approved by the European Commission by August 2018, with respect to the proposed approaches to the measurement of direct and indirect effects, appropriateness and proportionality. We find that the most common method considered by Member States in their evaluation plans is the econometric estimation of differences-in-differences. Keywords: State aid ex post evaluation; Environmental aid; Econometric estimation methods; Evaluation plans.

Implications of the State Aid Modernisation for the Assessment of Large Investment Projects journal article

Hans Friederiszick, Nicola Tosini

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 12 (2013), Issue 1, Page 46 - 60

The Relevance of Market Screens in the Regional Aid Guidelines

The Regional Aid Guidelines foresee specific screens for an in-depth assessment of Large Investment Projects (LIPs): an in-depth assessment is initiated if the market share of the aid beneficiary is above 25 % or the investment results in a capacity expansion above 5% in a declining market. It is currently being discussed within the broader State Aid Modernisation package and also due to a recent court

Using economic analysis to assess R&D&I State aid measures journal article

Hans Friederiszick, Lars-Hendrik Röller

European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 6 (2007), Issue 4, Page 13

I. Introduction European State aid control has become an integral part of competition policy. As in other fields of competition policy it focuses on the negative effects of a measure on competition and trade and balances these with potential positive effects. In this way, counterfactual analysis, market definition and an effects-based analysis in certain cases are the unifying themes of modern economic analysis as applied to competition policy. T

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