[We present a new dataset compiling the geographic coordinates of the entire universe of courts that have passed on cases to the European Court of Justice over the lifetime of the European Union. The GEOCOURT Dataset allows the exploration of spatial disparities and clustering effects across...

Increasing consumer awareness on sustainable and healthy food choices gave rise to a growing demand for organic tea in the past decades. Most of this demand is met by imports from developing countries. This article examines the main factors affecting the choice of farm households to adopt...

Agricultural extension services have been dominated by development programs to improve the productivity of crops and enhance farmers' income. The virtues and limitations of these programs ignite a debate among scholars from distinct strands of research. It is still unknown how effective...

Research on issue attention in the European Union has focused on the prominence of EU integration in domestic politics and media and, at EU level, on the salience of individual issues and legislative files, often in relation to lobbying. Existing EU-level measures of issue saliency, though, are...

This paper studies individuals' preference for reducing advantageous inequality in the distribution of gains and losses. Combining the inequality aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (1999) with loss aversion à la Kahneman and Tversky (1979), we predict the relative dislike for advantageous...

Drawing on neoclassical consumer choice theory, we design a model to study court performance in which a judge is facing a trade-off between judicial speed (time to decision) and verdict length (number of words) given a resource constraint. The model has two main implications. First, the...

We investigate the factors influencing the choice of domestic judges to pass on cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union. While EU judicial scholars have typically relied on integration theory or ad hoc theories of adjudication to explain referral activity, our theoretical framework...

We exploit the nonhierarchical nature of the European Union legal system to investigatethe effect of negative feedback on inter-court cooperation. We argue that, in thecontext of a nonhierarchical referral system, formal dismissals expose shirking whichthe principal, the referral court, has no...

Students of EU judicial politics have debated whether the threat of legislative override can influence the behaviour of the European Court of Justice. Yet because of the high political hurdles for the passage of Treaty amendments, Treaty revision has been dismissed as the "nuclear option",...

The soaring economic development of export activities of handicrafts centralized in emerging urban regions in Vietnam has accelerated the increase in the occurrence of diseases and threats to ecosystems induced by water pollution. We design a discrete choice experiment to elicit the...