providing evidence of a resource curse. Extractive industries in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia have positive direct …

-globalist assumptions of the "Lisbon process", the policy target of the European leaders since the EU's Lisbon Council meeting in March 2000 … for current policy-making in Europe, and opt for an industrial policy approach in the tradition of former EU …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …

-Saxon countries. For Eastern Europe, our results are less definite. Looking at the impact of the tax and benefit schemes in the EU, it …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

reduction. The empirical results are based on a panel data estimation using the EU-15 countries data observed from 1995 to 2010 …

ranking by the two indices, it is shown that the United States outperformed most EU-member states. Our investigations also … difference in the ranking by the two indices, it is shown that the United States outperformed most EU-member states. Our …