Ende Juni 2013 hat die Europäische Kommission Leitlinien für Regionalbeihilfen für den Zeitraum 2014 bis 2020 verabschiedet. Der Autor argumentiert, dass diese Leitlinien stellenweise weder mit der ökonomischen Theorie noch mit verwandten Leitlinien und Mitteilungen der Kommission in...

The Paris Agreement established a new mechanism by which a country can offset some of its emissions reductions in other countries. Its design is still under negotiation. While taking advantage of cheaper abatement opportunities enables efficiency gains, the impact on the price volatility in the...

In recent years, the European Union is stressing the importance of monitoring and evaluating its policies, among which the common agricultural policy plays an important role. Policy evaluation, in order to provide reliable results on which to take important legislative decisions, should rely on...

The COVID-19 crisis has been accompanied by an extensive use of indicators, such as those related to COVID infections and deaths but also a good number of COVID policy indicators. This paper discusses these indicators from the perspective of a legal scholar with an interest (and some expertise)...

The purpose of this paper is to measure the risks posed by the COVID-19 outbreak on financial market indicators, which caused uncertainty and fear all over the world. In the paper, the Fourier KPSS unit root test, which helps to measure structural breaks more precisely by means of the Fourier...