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Financing Bologna, the internationally mobile students in European higher education
Gérard, Marcel - 2008
well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264431
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Terrorism and Misperceptions : Evidence from Europe
Arin, K. Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023
How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large-scale survey that measures misperceptions towards minority groups in four European countries. Our results show that terror attacks in the past increased misperceptions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348045
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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US: Between equity and efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To … approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit … social welfare functions are broadly compatible with the fiction of an optimizing Paretian social planner. Some exceptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277401
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Populism and Social Polarization in European Democracies
Ginsburgh, Victor - 2020
The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826060
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Covid-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility Against Foreigners
Bartos, Vojtech - 2020
Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility against people from other nations or ethnic minorities. Using a controlled money-burning task, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832113
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Comprehensive National Accounting for Carbon Emissions
Asheim, Geir B.; Yamaguchi, Rintaro - 2023
We consider the question of how to integrate carbon emissions in comprehensive national accounts for the purpose of indicating whether countries’ development is sustainable. We derive an expression for national saving which includes not only the national effect of current global emissions, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346316
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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations: Is the EU right?
Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012
Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best policy, given that auctioning with border adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291501
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Smart Hedging against Carbon Leakage
Böhringer, Christoph - 2019
general equilibrium (CGE) model calibrated to empirical data, we quantify the welfare gains for the EU to impose such a … goods entitled to OBA. The consumption tax increases welfare whether the goods are highly exposed to leakage or not, and can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859992
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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control: Theory and evidence
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their … misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme … fairness test, whereas the Baltic and Anglo-Saxon countries (including the US) perform worst. Our paper provides a new way to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277364
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The making of cultural policy : a European perspective
van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2005
No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261319