Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on …

and rely on a very comprehensive database of scientific journals, to provide a cross-country comparison of the evolution … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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 …

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and … Europe. …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

interdependencies with the labor market situation in Europe. We place particular emphasis on the issue of non-competitive wage setting …

while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …