Analysis of the Effectiveness the European Regional Development Fund Disbursement for the Selected Tourism Services with the use of the Counterfactual Method

The aim of the article is to analyse the effectiveness of decision-making in the disbursement of funds from the ERDF for the selected tourism services. In the theoretical part of the article, the model of assessment of the ERDF management system effectiveness has been developed. This model is built on the basis of the Propensity Score Matching method, used to assess the effectiveness of community programs. In the empirical part of the article, the verification of the model on the example of NUTS 2 Podlasie, the tourism sector was carried out. The obtained results allow concluding that the developed deadweight assessment model can be used in practice for the evaluation of the efficiency of the ERDF management system.