Bachelor Student Prize Winner

Eighteen students completed their bachelor's degree in 2021 with a thesis that was labelled ‘excellent’ by their faculty. Here you will find a short introduction to these excellent theses in the form of an "elevator pitch" from each student, plus a video in which the supervisor briefly addresses the lucky winner.

Konstantin Felix Scheuermann

  School of Business and Economics | Bachelor Economics and Business Economics

"On the Impact of European Cohesion Policy - Does Regional Public Procurement Management Matter?"

Konstantin's elevator pitch
While the positive impact of European Cohesion Policy (CP) on regional economic outcomes has been established through quasi-experimental methods, causal estimates of heterogeneous treatment response remain largely unexplored. In this paper, I investigate the role of public procurement management (PPM) as a source of heterogeneity, altering the impact of CP on regional economic outcomes. I estimate a fuzzy regression discontinuity with heterogeneous treatment and find a significant positive impact of more efficient PPM on the effectiveness of convergence transfer treatment. This has crucial policy implications, calling for higher quality of regional public administrations in treatment regions to foster local investment intensity, employment rates, and GDP growth.