Im Hinblick auf die Sicherung des europäischen Binnenmarktes ist die Vermeidung von Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch staatliche Beihilfen von großer Bedeutung. Der Verfasser untersucht und beurteilt die Politik der Kommission in diesem Bereich anhand allokationstheoretischer und...

In a recent article, Caporaso and Tarrow have argued that the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is increasingly moving in a social policy direction that will ultimately put European politics on a “Polanyian” course. We take issue with their claim and distinguish three...

We use a novel approach to address the question of whether a union of sovereign countries can efficiently raise and allocate a budget, even when members are purely self-interested and participation is voluntary. The main innovation of our model is to explore the link between budget contributions...