1 Introduction -- 2 Institutional Difference in European Metropolitan Commercial Real Estate Markets -- 3 Financial Markets in London Metropolitan Commercial Real Estate -- 4 Building Activities in Barcelona and Madrid Metropolitan Areas -- 5 Land Policy and Vacancies in the Metropolitan...

Real estate is the biggest real asset class in an economy, and Germany is the biggest economy in Europe. This implies opportunities as well as specific risks for investors and policy makers. As the German real estate markets have by and large been spared severe disruptions in the course of the...

Introduction -- Sustainable Building Certification and the Rent Premium: A Panel Data Approach -- Operating Expenses and The Rent Premium of Sustainable Buildings -- Sustainability and the Leasing Decision of Office Occupiers in the U.S. -- Summary, Practical Implications, and Further Research.

Law, economics and finance issues in Singapore’s housing development board flats -- Internalization of environmental externality in dwellings: review of court cases in Hong Kong in the past two decades -- The institutional analysis of fittings in residential units -- Asymmetric information and...

1. Energy Poverty Revisited -- 2. Understanding Energy Poverty, Vulnerability and Justice -- 3. Energy Poverty Policies at the EU Level -- 4. The European Energy Divide -- 5. Concluding Thoughts - Embracing and Capturing Complexity

This volume, the fifth instalment of the classic Report on the European Union series, offers at once an economic and intellectual historical perspective on the creation of the euro and its 20 first years, a comprehensive review of the current and future challenges of the euro area, including a...

"Paul J.J. Welfens has written a highly perceptive study of the origins - and the implications - of what must be Britain's worst deliberate economic policy mistake since the Great Depression." -Harold James, Princeton University, USA "This book by Paul J.J. Welfens, dealing with the result of...

This book explores the intricate connection between the Single Market, characterized by the freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and labor within and across Europe, and the Digital Single Market, the virtual space that promotes freedom of movement of information and data. Both a...

This book provides a critical analysis of The European Union’s regulatory framework for mobile payments and bitcoin. Chapters discuss the creation of the EU single market for e-payments and combine legal analysis with comparative case studies in their exploration of the regulatory challenges...

Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Borders and Frontiers in the Internet Age -- Chapter 2 Socio-Economic Evolution of the European Union: A Frontier Perspective -- Chapter 3 What is the Electronic Frontier? -- Chapter 4 The Electronic Frontier in the European Union -- Conclusions. .