The common European electricity market requires both market integration and transmission grid expansion, including trans-border interconnectors. Although the benefits of increased interconnectivity are widely acknowledged, expansion of interconnectors is often very slow. This paper gathers...

Eastern Europe is one of the fastest growing transition economies of the world. The post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, especially the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, continue to undergo a radical economic reform program via microeconomic liberalization, macroeconomic...

Game theory fails to adequately account for an evolving context which can affect the preferences of disputing actors, an issue which the author find to be likely to systematically produce inaccurate explanations and predictions. Empirical evidence is presented that supports the claim that the...

In light of the UK Coalition Government's announced intention to reform APD (Air Passenger Duty), this article examines the design flaws making APD an inadequate environmental tax. By identifying the misconceived consequences and environmental inefficiencies of this blunt instrument, the need...

The authors of the article analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport in the world. Particular attention is paid to the experience of Great Britain, France, and India, where the restrictions associated with the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 have had a very negative...

While Article 8 of the Paris Convention mandates the protection of trade names independently of their entitlement to protection as trademarks, European law has traditionally offered only limited and uneven protection. This article examines the heightened protection of trade names within the...

The internal market was always playing a vital role to the European integration. Harmonisation and the free movement of goods were the main two tools pushing the internal market into completion. The single market plan did not magically come to an end in 1992. Various measures that complete and...

Existing works on the economic implications of social structures examined the effect of intra-community information and contract enforcement institutions on personal exchange among that community's members. In contrast, this paper examines the extent to which common knowledge regarding social...

The rapid spread of coronavirus infection in the world has led to the development of a global health crisis, overload of national health systems and serious economic consequences. A noticeable downside of measures to contain infection was, in particular, the cardinal restriction of transport...

The rise of the sharing economy has changed how many Americans commute, shop, vacation, and borrow. It has also disrupted long-established industries, from taxis to hotels, and has confounded policymakers. In particular, regulators are trying to determine how to apply many of the traditional...