The introduction of the European Union (EU) Settlement Procedure in 2008 aimed at promoting the procedural efficiency …

Fighting cartels is a major priority of EU competition policy. Acting in concert with national competition authorities … in the EU, the European Commission (EC) has made considerable efforts to promote competitiveness by detecting and …Die Bekämpfung von Kartellen hat einen außerordentlich hohen Stellenwert im Rahmen der EU-Wettbewerbspolitik. In …

public administration reforms for a panel of EU countries using a novel reform indicator. The findings support the political … other EU countries, and for vertical learning associated with a particular type of EU transfers. …

procedural efficiency of cartel enforcement in the European Union (EU). We use a data set consisting of 84 cartels decided by the … EC from 2000 to 2014 to empirically investigate the impact of the EU settlement procedure on the duration of cartel … discussion of further evaluation approaches we conclude that the EU Settlement Procedure has increased procedural efficiency of …

In this paper we propose a reform of the EU financing system. The two most important elements of our proposal are i) to … make the contribution of taxpayers to the EU budget more visible by showing an EU VAT share on receipts and ii) to increase … the power of the European Parliament in the determination of the structure of EU expenditures by limiting the multiannual …