In recent weeks several Iowa policymakers, leaders, and citizens have become interested in proposals involving significant policy reforms and tax increment financing. Much of the discussion is based on the results of a single study based on aggregate approaches that were never designed for the...

The world has entered a global recession that is causing widespread business contraction, increases in unemployment, and shrinking government revenues. The process for coping with the crisis by countries across the globe has been manifest in four basic phases. The first has been intervention to...

The European Union has been one of the most enthusiastic proponents of fiscal rules. Following the European sovereign debt crisis, the EU did not embark on a wide-scale governance reform with the aim of creating a fiscal union; rather, it started to cement the original architecture that had been...

This publication presents eleven selected articles in two thematic chapters. The chapter titled Institutions and Instruments is focused on the role of institutions, among them the central banks, as well as various financial instruments designed to pursue sustainability at the micro-level, such...

This paper studies the impact of the regulation of the retail sector on competition and consumer prices. We first perform an international analysis using OECD data. Our findings indicate that there is correlation between changes in retail regulation and changes in food prices, which suggests...