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August 25, 2025
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Regional economic impact of the Next Generation European Union recovery plan

Publicated to: Papers In Regional Science. 104 (4): 100105- - 2025-08-01 104(4), DOI: 10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100105

Authors:

Almazán-Gómez, MA; Llano, C; Pérez, J; Kallioras, D; Tsiapa, M
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Affiliations

AgriFood Inst Aragon IA2, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Autonomous Univ Madrid, Dept Appl Econ, Madrid, Spain - Author
Autonomous Univ Madrid, Dept Econ Anal, Madrid, Spain - Author
LR Klein Inst & Econ Forecasting Ctr CEPREDE, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Thessaly, Dept Econ, Volos, Greece - Author
Univ Thessaly, Dept Planning & Reg Dev, Volos, Greece - Author
Univ Zaragoza, Dept Econ Anal, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
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Abstract

This paper analyzes the economic impact of the Next Generation Funds package of the European Union (NGEU), focusing on the allocation of NGEU funds across European regions and the impact on rent distribution using new datasets on direct investments and remittances. Employing the input-output framework this work assesses the effects of the pandemic and the implications of NGEU funds, considering two alternative scenarios of sectoral and regional allocation, and a second round of rent distribution. The analysis reveals that the positive effects of the NGEU are largely overshadowed by the negative impacts of pandemic in most regions. Additionally, when considering the final redistributive effect, including interregional capital and remittance flows, the spatial pattern shifts, indicating that despite overall improvements, core regions capture rents from peripheral regions, leading to anti-cohesion outcomes. These results prompt further investigation into the role of NGEU in regional recovery and cohesion, suggesting additional research into rent distribution and the long-term economic impacts.
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Keywords

Covid19EuropInter-regional input-output analysisNext generation funds

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Papers In Regional Science due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 43/174, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Geography.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 16.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 16 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Greece.

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Awards linked to the item

This article was developed within the IRIE-ESPON Project, http s:// www.espon.eu/interregional-relations-europe-new-project-espon funded by ESPON EGTC. This paper was developed within another research projects the H2019/HUM-5761 INNOJOBMAD-CM Program from the Autonomous Community of Madrid. The authors are grateful for the comments received from the participants at the 5th investigation in internationalization conference (May 2023) . Miguel A ngel Almaza n- Go mez also wants to thank the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government (PID2022-140010OB-I00) and the Department of Science, University and Knowledge Society of the Government of Aragon (S40_23R) .
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