This report is summarising the assignment for evaluation of on-going micro-projects financed under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) in Ukraine. The evaluation project was implemented under the contract DDH/2005/112531 within the EC Framework Contract...

The negative external effects of profit orientated businesses on the environment and society are most visible and destructive in developing countries, where compensation measures for adversely affected groups rarely exist and where high corruption rates often impede meaningful enforcement of...

Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...