Europe's economic performance has deteriorated continuously over the last two decades both in terms of its unemployment and its labor force participation rate; more recently its productivity has declined relative to the United States. This is due to a complex interaction between the how these...

Abstract The Bayesian structural time series model, used in conjunction with a state–space model, is a novel means of exploring the causal impact of a policy intervention. It extends the widely used difference–in–differences approach to the time series setting and enables several control...

Abstract The relationship between the European Union (EU) and its member states has recently been the subject of several legal proceedings in the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) and the European Court of Justice. The backdrop to the underlying controversies were policies instituted by...

Abstract The past Greek crisis experience is more or less terra incognita. In all historical empirical studies Greece is systematically neglected or included only sporadically in their cross-country samples. In the national literature too there is little on this topic. In this paper we use the...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag analysiert die Entstehung und Ausgestaltung der leistungsorientierten Hochschulfinanzierung in Baden-Württemberg aus ökonomischer, politischer und statistischer Perspektive. Dazu wird die verbale Vereinbarung des Finanzierungsmodells, die 1999 zwischen Ministerium...