DP2113 | The Redistributive Effects of the EU Budget: an Analysis and Some Reflections on the Agenda 2000 Negotiations

Publication Date

29/03/1999

JEL Code(s)

  • H11, H77, H87

Keyword(s)

  • European Union, Fiscal flows

Programme Area(s)

  • International Macroeconomics

Abstract

This paper analyzes the redistributive effects of the EU budget during the period 1986-97 and advances a proposal for setting member countries' budgetary balances in a manner consistent with a simple equity criterion based on relative income per capita.