This guidance document, produced by Working Group 2.9 Public Participation, aims at assisting competent authorities in the Member States and accession countries with the implementation of Article 14 of the water framework directive in the area of public participation. It can also benefit...

Participation is said to improve decisions on environmental conflicts. When investigating 16 case studies of participatory processes in European Water and Biodiversity Governance, which necessarily is multi-level, the picture becomes blurred: many different forms of participation can be...

An event study analysis is performed on consumer confidence around election times using an effective sample of 84 national elections from 1985 through 2005 in the EU-15 countries. Consumer confidence is measured monthly using identical surveys, which began in 1985 and were gradually adopted by...

Our society can benefit immensely from algorithmic decision-making and similar types of artificial intelligence. But algorithmic decision-making can also have discriminatory effects. This paper examines that problem, using online price differentiation as an example of algorithmic...

While US courts and regulatory agencies have set sail towards what may be dubbed a “more behavioral approach”, their European counterparts still mostly navigate the charted waters of a neoclassical “more economic approach”, as first advocated in EU competition law. This paper claims that...

The paper examines whether international regulatory harmonization increases cross-border labor migration. To study this question, we analyze European Union initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers,...

Agribusiness is the buzzword these days and is the main force behind the commercialization of the agriculture. Contract farming, One stop shop, Opening of the retail stores, starting of the terminal markets, establishment of processing units etc. has proved that agribusiness is very much...