This working paper presents the initial results of our representative survey of physicians working in Germany who are non-German EU citizens and who have recently immigrated to Germany (N: 1712). We address the education and training obtained by respondents by investigating the country in which...

The European Union is in troubled waters. Its original reliance on law as the object and agent of the integration project and on the “economic constitution” which the EMU, as accomplished by the Treaty of Maastricht, were expected to complete have proven to be unsustainable. Following the...

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of bank-specific, regulatory and macroeconomic determinants on bank risk, profitability and solvency in the Armenian banking sector. To account for these, we apply a GMM technique to a panel of 22 Armenian banks covering the 2003-2014 period. The...

Alternative perspectives on the structure of international trade have important implications for the evaluation of climate policy. In this paper we assess climate policy in the context of three important alternative trade formulations. First is a Heckscher‐Ohlin model based on trade in...

Energy security ranks high on the policy agenda of many countries. To improve on energy security, governments undertake regulatory measures for promoting renewable energy, increasing energy efficiency, or curbing carbon dioxide emissions. The impacts of such measures on energy security are...

Climate effects of unilateral carbon policies are undermined by carbon leakage. To counteract leakage and increase global cost-effectiveness carbon tariffs can be imposed on the emissions embodied in imports from non-regulating regions. We present a theoretical analysis on the economic...

We test whether the relationship between subjective well-being (SWB) of European citizens and the structure of electricity supply has changed after the Fukushima nuclear accident of March 11, 2011. Survey data for about 124,000 individuals in 23 European countries reveal that while European...

Climate change ranks high on the policy agenda of the European Union (EU) which considers itself as a leading force in the battle against anthropogenic climate change. The EU is committed to the objective of limiting the rise in global average temperature to no more than 2°C above...

This technical report describes the mixed methods data collection of the first in-depth empirical study of intra-EU highly skilled migration in Germany. The target population of our study consists of EU immigrants in Germany who belong to the medical profession. The overall study design is based...

What kind of law are Germany’s Constitutional Court and the CJEU concerned with when they decide upon European and national powers in the realms of monetary, economic and fiscal policy? Is it still possible to identify some meta-legal conceptual basis for the ordering functions attributed to...