The journalistic scandal that reached the headlines with the iconoclastic expression “LuxLeaks” has raised an EU wide debate about national tax administrations' advance ruling practices and it calls for a need to establish the acceptable boundaries between fair and harmful tax competition in...

Multinational corporations shift a large share of their foreign profits to tax havens and, due to this corporate tax avoidance, governments worldwide lose a portion of their tax revenues. In this paper we study the consequences of multinational tax avoidance for the structure of government tax...

This paper investigates empirical linkages amongst inclusive institutions, innovation and economic growth in the European context. We follow as a theoretical framework a non-scale R&D-based growth model. In the baseline model, negative institutional externalities not only affect the productivity...

The following article deals with the basic Solow model of economic growth for the states of the EU-28 and empirically confirms its conclusions. Based on growth accounting, and by analyzing different determinants of the respective steady states of each country, we confirm the importance of...

Since the information and communications technology revolution, productivity growth in Southern European countries has been substantially lower than in developed European countries. I document that Spanish firms have lower productivity growth, lower intangible capital growth, and lower leverage...

Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the global climate has changed dramatically. Concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere have increased sharply, followed by an increase in global average temperatures. However, business activities related to environmental protection...

This paper studies the determinants of economic growth and the role of the public budget in European Union (EU) member states in Central and Eastern Europe, that joined the European Union in 2004, with a balanced data set from 1996 until 2012. A special focus is set on the relationship between...

This paper empirically studies whether it pays off (in terms of economic growth) to fulfill the convergence criteria on the public budget and participation in the Euro-zone. The analysis is based on data of European economies with a special focus on twelve Euro-zone members and a control group...

This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on per-capita GDP growth in twelve euro area countries over a period of about 40 years starting in 1970. It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point—beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a...