Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …

representative household microdata from 11 Eurozone countries to simulate these policy reforms and to study their effects on the … that not all forms of fiscal integration will improve macroeconomic stability in the Eurozone …

Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived …

survey, we find that prospective and return migrants, as well as people with relatives abroad, are more likely to vote …

outflow across the border to Germany. Exploiting the fact that the reform specifically impacted the Czech and German border …