The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the …

Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and … inequality and low growth, the rise of the East has shown that it may not be liberal democracy that is best at accommodating the … social mutations that technologies have triggered. The cases of China and Italy form the research focus as two extremes in …

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research … standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research …

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

Europe. …

mobility within Europe …

preferences. We derive important implications for research on optimal taxation …

Europe …