The full set of EU objectives in the long run require basic and critical research in the social sciences and the humanities (SSH). A European Research Council (ERC) may act for reasons of economies of scale, to alleviate coordination problems, or to obtain public goods or ‘club goods’ for...

This special edition of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis offers twenty-three chapters by invited participants in the International Applied Social Science Congress. In these chapters chronical a wide variety of important issues such as: Volatility spillover between...

This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states’ engagement in the area of social protection, this book shows how a series of...