Policies that aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity have been high on the policy agenda for many years - see, for example, DHSC (2020) and Dimbleby (2021). Understanding the costs associated with obesity is important for informing policy. Bell and Deyes (2022) have recently produced what are,...

European Union countries have implemented widespread reforms to product markets in order to stimulate competition, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme (SMP) were associated with increased product market...

In this paper we use new data to describe how firms from 15 European countries organise their innovative activities. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe...

Ziel dieser Studie ist es, für die 28 EU-Staaten sowie die Schweiz, Norwegen, Republik Mazedonien, Türkei, USA, Kanada und Japan effektive Steuersätze zu ermitteln. Dabei stützt sich die Berechnung der inländischen und grenzüberschreitenden marginalen und durchschnittlichen...