This study deals with the baseline and impact indicators for the EU rural development programming period 2007-2013. Key concepts are explained in part A, Common baseline indicators are defined in part B and Guidelines are provided for defining additional baseline indicators.

In 2001, government guarantees for savings banks in Germany were removed following a law suit. We use this natural experiment to examine the effect of government guarantees on bank risk taking, using a large data set of matched bank/borrower information. The results suggest that banks whose...

The paper shows that mispriced deposit insurance and capital regulation were of second order importance in determining the capital structure of large U.S. and European banks during 1991 to 2004. Instead, standard cross-sectional determinants of non-financial firms’ leverage carry over to...

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...