This paper deals with the regularity problem in the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) in terms of the boundedness of the budget shares within the [0,1] interval. The violation of "cointegration accounting" can be seen just as another consequence of irregularity. The discussion of modifications...

In this paper we would like to draw attention on the fact how important for the absorption of the EU funds might be each country's or region's split of its financial portfolio between EU, national and private sources of co-financing. Based on data from the Ex-Post Evaluation 1994-99, this paper...