Wagner's Law is the first model of public expenditure in the history of public finance. It suggests that during the process of economic development the share of public spending in national income tends to expand (Wagner, 1883). Nevertheless, Peacock and Scott in 2000 wrote a paper entitled...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most urgent issues associated with economic growth and urban population. When untreated, it generates harmful and toxic substances spreading out into the soils. When treated, they produce an important amount of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions directly...

This study will demonstrate, through an econometric model in time series, if and how the Chinese basket peg has changed in relation to the weight that the European single currency holds within it. Specifically, utilizing Frankel's (1994) econometric model, as revisited by Mele (2010) enriched by...

The European Monetary Union is an unprecedented event in economic history: it is based on an institutional model characterized by a combination of a single monetary policy, mandated by sovereign states to an independent supranational institution, the European Central Bank, and decentralized...