On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities - financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth...

This book offers a comparative perspective on the economics of sport and highlights both the similarities and differences in the North American and European models of sport. It tackles policy issues, such as the organising, financing and regulation of team sports alongside theoretical issues...

This paper describes a methodology for the construction of a novel patent dataset for computing consolidated patent portfolios across patent offices. In particular, relying on two previous contributions – the EPIP database for EPO/PCT patents and the IIP patent database for JPO patent...