Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45613 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 17
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This paper summarizes the economic principles of European state aid control. We start with a discussion of the economic justification for state aid control, including the definition of state aid in European law and exceptions to the general ban of state aid. We then explore the motives for granting state aid, ranging from the correction of market failures over political motives to political economy considerations. We then discuss how state aid control fits into the framework of European competition policy before we comment extensively on the more economic approach to state aid control, as implemented by the European Commission, and the state aid action plan.
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-016-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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